Click here to go to the Food Allergen Awareness: For Virginia Food Establishments page
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click here to go to the Food Allergen Awareness: For Virginia Food Establishments page at http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/environmental-health/food-safety-in-virginia/food-allergens/

or click here for the PickYourOwn.org starting page

Additional Cottage Food Home Business Information

• Cottage Food Regulations by state
• Forming your business - links to each state's Secretary of State's Office website
• Local state departments of health .
• FDA Food labeling information - May be superseded by your state's requirements
• Guidelines for Determining Metric Equivalents of Household Measures (October 1, 1993)
• Massachusetts's Food Processors Resource Manual -  a practical guide for specialty food and start-up food processors published by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. The marketing and practical tips can be very useful to a cottage food kitchen in any state.  The chapters are available online and as a downloadable document PDf format
• Taxes - collecting, reporting and remitting sales taxes on cottage food sales .
• Contact information to each state's County Extension Offices - they often have classes on home food preservation

Specific Fruit and Vegetable Picking and Preserving Guides and Recipes

After you go to Food Allergen Awareness: For Virginia Food Establishments, you may want to freeze, can or preserve the fruit or vegetables you get there. See these pages below for detailed, illustrated, step-by-step instructions that make it easy!