Granite City's Melting Pot Market hasn't allowed vendors to sell homemade goods like jelly and baked goods during its 3 years in business, but that has changed since Illinois enacted the Cottage Law. This law allows vendors to sell these things after passing a 15 hour sanitation test and paying a $50 registration fee.
Here's the line in the story which is arguably the most over the top description of saleable food I've ever read:
"The law allows non-potentially hazardous foods, like apple pie, dried oregano or peach preserves, to be produced in a home kitchen and sold at open-air farmers markets."
It's nice to know apple pie and oregano are now not considered hazardous.
In other news, Granite City has a farmers market?
It is amazing for decades people held bake sales and sold home made food and doesn't seem like anyone ever reported getting sick.
Now, the nanny state is trying to protect us from ourselves.
Please government, just leave us alone. We will survive and do quite well, without your burdensome oversight and fees.
Posted by: Ron | May 12, 2012 at 10:11 AM