Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that repeals certain regulations for selling homemade food, and requires the listing of product ingredients for homemade food.

Highlights:

• Defines “homemade food product” as food, including a nonalcoholic beverage, which is produced and, if packaged, packaged at the private residence of the producer (Sec. 2).

• Defines “potentially hazardous” as food that requires time/temperature control for safety to limit infectious or toxigenic microorganisms, and is in a form capable of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms (Sec. 2).

• Exempts the production and sale of homemade food products that meet the following conditions, from all licensing and other requirements of the State Department of Health and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (Sec. 3):

• For the sale of nonpotentially hazardous homemade food products that:

• Will be sold by the producer directly to the consumer, either in person or by remote means including, but not limited to, the Internet or telephone; or

• Will be sold by a producer’s designated agent or a third-party vendor, such as a retail or grocery store, to the consumer; or

• For the delivery of nonpotentially hazardous homemade food products:

• By the producer or producer’s designated agent directly to the consumer or third-party vendor; or

• Delivered by a third-party vendor or a third-party carrier, such as a parcel delivery service, to the consumer or third-party vendor.

• Requires potentially hazardous homemade food products to be sold by the producer directly to the consumer, either in person or by remote means including, but not limited to, the Internet or telephone (Sec. 3).

• Requires potentially hazardous homemade food products to be delivered by the producer directly to the consumer (Sec. 3).

• Requires the following information to be provided to the consumer in the required format (Sec. 3):

• The name, phone number, and mailing address of the producer;

• A description of the homemade food product;

• The ingredients of the homemade food products; and

• Legible print stating, “This product was produced in a private residence that is exempt from government licensing and inspection.” 

• Prohibits homemade food products from containing meat, meat byproducts, meat food products, or poultry, poultry products, or poultry food products (Sec. 3).

• Requires beekeepers with an annual production of less than five hundred gallons to sell or distribute their honey or honeycomb in person to the customer by a designated agent of the beekeeper, by a carrier such as a parcel delivery service, or to a vendor or retail establishment for resale (Sec. 7).

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