HI HB408

Establishes a cottage food law allowing home-based food production businesses to sell non-potentially hazardous foods (baked goods, jams, jellies, preserves, chocolates) directly to consumers from a home kitchen in Hawaii.

Requires cottage food operators to register with the Department of Health, complete a food safety online course (renewed every 5 years), and meet specific sanitation and facility requirements including municipal water access, handwashing facilities, and pest control.

Prohibits internet sales of cottage food products and requires all labels to display the operator's name and address, product name, production date, ingredients list, and warnings that the product is home-produced and not from a Department of Health-inspected facility.

Restricts eligibility to persons with net annual earnings from cottage food sales between $5,000 and $50,000, prohibits animals and domestic activities in production areas, and requires immediate cessation of operations upon foodborne illness outbreak.

Effective January 1, 2016, with Department of Health required to adopt implementing rules by December 31, 2015.