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.

Session held at the Upper Midwest Regional Fruit & Vegetable Growers Conference & Trade Show. Register at http://www.mfvga.org/en/conferences__workshops/ or contact Suzanne at (320) 203-6057 or driessen@umn.edu