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Minnesota cottage food label rules

What has to be on the label when you sell homemade baked goods in Minnesota, and the limits that matter at a market. Checked September 2026.

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Your label must include

Name and registration number of the person who prepared and sells the food (address allowed instead under 2027 text)
Date the food was prepared
Ingredients
Any possible allergens
Required statement

Required statement

“These products are homemade and not subject to state inspection.”

No font size rule in statute. The same statement must also be displayed on any website offering the products.

Sunny Crumb Co. · 123 Palm Ave, Your City, MN 00000

Baked on 10/03/2026

Ingredients: enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (cream, salt), brown sugar, toffee bits (sugar, butter, almonds, soy lecithin), eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, sea salt.

Contains: wheat, milk, eggs, tree nuts (almond), soy.

These products are homemade and not subject to state inspection.

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Key limits in Minnesota

Permit: Registration with MDA required every year: free if gross sales are $5,000 or less, $50/year above that (becomes a single $30/year registration on Aug 1, 2027).
Training: Required: free MDA online course for the no-fee tier; for the $50 tier, an MDA-approved safe food handling course (up to 8 hours, e.g. U of M Extension) every 3 years
Sales cap: $78,000 per calendar year (to be inflation-adjusted starting Aug 1, 2027)
Where you can sell: Directly to the end consumer only: farmers markets, community events, from home (subject to local ordinance), or donated for fundraisers. No wholesale, retail stores or restaurants.
Online & shipping: Online sales OK if the website shows the ‘homemade and not subject to state inspection’ statement; the person who made the food must deliver it to the customer personally — no shipping or commercial delivery until the 2025 amendments take effect Aug 1, 2027.
Law: Cottage Foods Exemption, Minn. Stat. §28A.152 (2025 amendments, Laws 2025 ch. 34 art. 5, take effect Aug 1, 2027)

What we could not confirm (4)

The revisor’s current statute page already shows the 2027 text ($30 fee, mail/commercial delivery) — those provisions are NOT yet in effect as of Sept 2026
MDA eLicense page lists tier 1 as both ‘$0–$5,000’ and ‘up to $7,665’ (possibly inflation-adjusted); exact current tier threshold unclear
Under the current statute, label must show registration number; whether address may replace it before 2027 unclear
Whether MDA also requires a sign/placard with the statement at markets was not checked

Check with: Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA)

Last change to the law: Laws 2025 ch. 34 art. 5 (signed 2025) — effective 2027-08-01; current rules from earlier amendments (cap $78,000 already in effect)

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Minnesota cottage food label rules

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Required statement

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