| Rule Number: |
25-E01 |
| Title: |
Manufactured Food Emergency Rule. |
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Type:
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Emergency |
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Status:
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Adopted |
| Agency: |
Department of Health, Agency of Human Services
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| Legal Authority: |
Section 6 of Act No. 42 of 2025; and 3 V.S.A. ยง 801(b)(11). |
| Summary:
| The purpose of the rule is to provide the requirements for the safe and sanitary manufacturing, packing, holding, and distributing of human food offered for sale in Vermont. This rulemaking does the following: 1) Defines cottage food operation, cottage food operator, and cottage food product; 2) Substitutes the more narrow bakery product exemption for a broader exemption categorized as the cottage food exemption and raises the exemption threshold of gross annual sales to $30,000; 3) Amends the existing exemption filing requirement frequency from prior to operation to an annual filing; 4) Creates a required annual training for license-exempt food manufacturers; and 5) Creates a process for cottage food operators to submit requests to the Department for determination whether the product they are making is a cottage food. |
| Persons Affected:
| Cottage food operators manufacturing up to $30,000 gross annual sales of cottage foods, license-exempt manufacturers producing up to $10,000 gross annual sales of non-bakery products, and potential indirect impacts on Agency of Commerce and Community Development(ACCD). |
| Economic Impact:
| The raised exemption theshold frees licensed-exempt producers manufacturing up to $30,000 gross annual sales of cottage foods and/or $10,000 gross annual sales of non-bakery products from the obligation to obtain a license, pay associated licensure fees, and obtain a commerical facility thereby creating an economic savings. However, an annual training and filing requirement may have a small economic cost to the extent time and resources are diverted to these requirements. There are no anticipated direct impacts on ACCD. Lessening the economic burden on small food manufacturers may have indirect impacts on ACCD to the extent that there is an increase in new small business selling licensed-exempt food products and their participation in ACCD's programming. |
| Posting date: |
Jul 01,2025 |
| Information for Contact # 1 |
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Primary
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| Name: |
Jessica Schifano, Policy Director |
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Agency:
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Department of Health, Agency of Human Services
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| Address: |
280 State Drive, Building C |
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| City: |
Waterbury |
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| State: |
VT |
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| Zip: |
05671-1080 |
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| Telephone: |
802-798-6756 |
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Email: |
jessica.schifano@vermont.gov
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| Website Address: |
https://www.healthvermont.gov/laws-regulations/laws/rules-public-comment
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| Information for Contact # 2 |
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Level:
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Secondary
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| Name: |
Natalie Weill, Policy Advisor |
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Agency:
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Department of Health, Agency of Human Services
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| Address: |
280 State Drive, Building C |
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| City: |
Waterbury |
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| State: |
VT |
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| Zip: |
05671-1080 |
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| Telephone: |
802-863-7280 |
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Email: |
natalie.weill@vermont.gov
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