SB1022 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 36-136 to establish a regulatory framework for "cottage food products" prepared in home kitchens for commercial sale.

• Defines cottage food products as non-potentially hazardous foods (such as fruit jams, jellies, dry mixes, honey, dry pasta, and roasted nuts) that may be prepared in private home kitchens and sold commercially.

• Requires food preparers to complete food handler training from an accredited program, maintain active certification, and register with an online registry established by the Department of Health Services; registration must be renewed every three years.

• Mandates that cottage food products be labeled with the preparer's name and registration number, ingredient list, production date, and a statement that the product "was produced in a home kitchen that may process common food allergens and is not subject to public health inspection."

• Excludes from regulation foods requiring refrigeration, perishable baked goods, salsas, sauces, fermented and pickled foods, meat, fish, shellfish, beverages, acidified products, nut butters, and reduced-oxygen packaged products.