Cottage Foods Producer Food Safety Training

Do you make and sell baked goods, home-canned pickles, salsa, jam and jellies? Are you a cottage food producer? If yes, this workshop is for you. By attending this session, you will meet the training requirement to register as a Minnesota cottage food producer with annual sales over $5000 per year. This advanced course focuses on food safety practices for all processes covered under the cottage food law including drying, baking, confections, jams and jellies, acid and acidified fruit and vegetables and fermentation. You will learn how to produce, package, label, store and transport a safe food product.

 Registration Fee is $35 A minimum of 15 people is needed for the class to be held. Registration Deadline: January 10, 2017 For more information contact: Karla at (507) 337-2808 or engel114@umn.edu. Class will be held at the U of M Robert J. Jones Urban Outreach Center, 2001 Plymouth Ave. N, Minneapolis, MN 55411. To register visit http://www.extension.umn.edu/food/food-safety/courses/cottage-foods/index.html