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Oregon cottage food law for home bakers

What a home baker in Oregon needs before the first sale: Cottage Food Exemption, the sales cap, online orders, delivery, and the exact label line, each with its source.

SAMPLE LABEL Grandma's Sourdough Loaf Contains: wheat, milk, eggs May contain: tree nuts This product is homemade, is not prepared in an inspected food establishment and must be stored and displayed separately if merchandised by a retailer. THE NINE ALLERGENS Milk Eggs Wheat Soy Peanuts Tree nuts Sesame Fish Shellfish

This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Laws change; check the linked source for your state before you sell. Last reviewed September 18, 2026.

$52,700sales cap
Noneto register
Yesonline orders

The short version

Oregon's Cottage Food Exemption needs no licence, no registration and no fee, only a food handler training certificate and a label that says the food is homemade.

The cap moves every year with inflation; the Department publishes the new figure each spring, and going over it means switching to a licensed and inspected Domestic Kitchen instead.

Registering

The rule is administered by Oregon Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Program; the guide reads ORS 616.723, as amended by 2023 Or. Laws ch. 211 (Senate Bill 643); OAR 603-025-0320, as most recently amended by Permanent Administrative Order DOA 95-2026 (eff. 2026-03-13).

There is no application, no registration and no cost. She only has to complete a food handler training program and keep three years of sales records in case the Department asks to see them.

Where you can sell, and whether online counts

She can sell from home, at a farmers market or roadside stand, online, or by mail, anywhere inside the state. A retailer can carry her products too, as long as the retailer stores and displays them separately and discloses they are homemade; she cannot sell to a caterer, school, hospital, nursing home, care facility, correctional facility or restaurant.

What goes on the label

Every package needs the fixed disclosure sentence, her name and phone number, her address or a Department-issued number instead, the product name, ingredients by weight, net weight, allergen warnings, and whether there are pets in her home.

"This product is homemade, is not prepared in an inspected food establishment and must be stored and displayed separately if merchandised by a retailer."

The Department may adopt alternative wording only to the extent federal labeling rules require it

  • The fixed label statement
  • The name and phone number for the food establishment
  • The address or the Department-issued identification number
  • The name of the product
  • Ingredients in descending order by weight
  • Net weight or net volume
  • Applicable allergen warnings
  • Whether pets are present in the residential dwelling, and their species

What you can bake and sell

Baked goods, candies, coffee, tea, popcorn, jams, jellies, honey, syrups, fruit butters, nut mixes and several repackaged shelf-stable items all qualify, as long as nothing needs refrigeration to stay safe. Anything containing cannabis is barred outright.

  • Allowed: Packaged, non-potentially-hazardous foods including baked goods, confectionary items, coffee beans, teas, popcorn, jams, jellies, honey, syrups, fruit butters, nut mixes, repackaged freeze-dried foods, repackaged dried and dehydrated foods, and powdered drink mixes
  • Not allowed: Potentially hazardous foods needing refrigeration for safety, any article containing cannabis, and sales to an institution such as a caterer, school, day care, hospital, nursing home, correctional facility or restaurant

The sales cap

Oregon caps cottage food sales at $52,700 a year, counted as gross annual sales of foods prepared at the food establishment, adjusted every year for West-region CPI-U inflation.

Work out how much room you have left this year with the cottage food sales cap checker.

What changed

September 23, 2023: Senate Bill 643 rewrote ORS 616.723: raised the cap from twenty thousand dollars to $50,000 with a yearly inflation adjustment, added online, mail and retailer sales, dropped the home-address label requirement in favor of an optional identification number, and allowed pets in the home.

March 13, 2026: The Department's yearly CPI filing raised the adjusted cap from fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars to $52,700.

Questions people ask

Do I need to register to sell cottage food in Oregon?

No, Oregon does not require registration. No application and no registration with the Department; she must keep records of annual sales for inspection on request. Fee: No fee; there is no permit process to pay into.

Has the cottage food sales cap in Oregon changed over time?

$52,700 a year from March 13, 2026, up from $50,000 on September 23, 2023, counted as gross annual sales of foods prepared at the food establishment, adjusted every year for West-region CPI-U inflation.

Can I take orders online in Oregon?

Yes, you can take orders online. You can hand an order over in person or send it anywhere inside the state.

Can I deliver or ship cottage food in Oregon?

Delivery is allowed. Shipping inside the state is allowed.

What does my Oregon cottage food label need to say?

The label must say: This product is homemade, is not prepared in an inspected food establishment and must be stored and displayed separately if merchandised by a retailer.

Sources

When the law changes

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