HI HB2153

Establishes a cottage food law allowing home-based food production businesses to prepare and sell nonpotentially hazardous foods (baked goods, jams, jellies, preserves) directly to consumers from a home kitchen.

Requires cottage food operators to register with the Department of Health, complete a food safety online course (renewed every 5 years), and meet sanitation standards including municipal water access, hand washing facilities, separate ingredient storage, and refrigeration.

Prohibits internet sales of cottage food products and requires sellers to label products with operator name and address, product name, production date, ingredients list, and warnings that the product is home-produced and not Department of Health-inspected.

Mandates that cottage food operators maintain clean facilities free of animal access and domestic activities during production, supervise all workers, and immediately cease operations if a foodborne illness outbreak occurs.

Requires the Department of Health to adopt implementing rules by December 31, 2014, and authorizes the department to charge reasonable registration fees; Act becomes effective January 20, 2050.