2024 February InMaricopa Magazine

What's legal to cook and sell from home?

APPROVED

NOT APPROVED

Fruits, jams and jellies

Foods requiring refrigeration

Dry mixes

Perishable baked goods

Dry pasta

Salsas

Roasted nuts

Sauces

Honey

Fermented and pickled foods

Cookies

Meat, fish and shellfish products

Breads and sweet breads

Beverages

Cakes with hard icings or frostings

Acidified food products

Fruit pies with fruit and sugar fillings

Nut butters

Brownies and fudge

Reduced-oxygen packaged products

Candies

Pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, pecan pie

Donuts

Cheesecake

Roasted coffee beans

Custard or cream-style pie, meringue pie

Tortillas

Tamales

Muffins

Butter and spreads

Scones

Syrups, extracts, tinctures

Popcorn, kettlecorn

Cakes with custard filling

Granola

Dehydrated fruits and vegetables

Dry spice mixes

Fillings, frostings, and icings (including ganache) that do not follow

It also addresses the governor’s concerns about the ability of the state health department to have oversight, giving the agency the power to revoke a license or to fine someone who breaks the rules included in a food handler’s permit. The governor told Capitol Media Services she isn’t seeking to allow health officials to make unannounced inspections. Whether food inspectors examine kitchens before they are allowed to be used is an issue that must be resolved, the newspaper reported. HB 2042 has other provisions limiting what can be made in home kitchens and how they can be marketed. For example, any product that contains dairy or meat must be sold and delivered in person. And if the product is potentially hazardous or requires time or temperature controls, it must be maintained at those temperatures during delivery, cannot be transported more than once and cannot be transported for more than two hours. The bill bans infusing cannabis oil into tamales and gives health officials the power to investigate a food-borne illness.

Potentially hazardous foods:

• Meat, poultry, fish • Shellfish, crustaceans • Eggs • Milk, dairy products • Baked potatoes • Heat-treated plant food (cooked rice, beans, vegetables) • Certain synthetic ingredients • Mushrooms, raw sprouts, cut melons, cut tomatoes, cut leafy greens • Tofu, soy protein foods • Untreated garlic, oil mixtures • Custards, puddings, cakes with custard fillings, meringues, cheesecakes, pumpkin, cream or custard pies, other desserts containing ingredients of animal origin

Source: Arizona Department of Environmental Services

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