Requirements for making and selling freeze-dried candy and freeze-dried fruits, vegetables, and meats 

Freeze-dried candy:

Freeze dried candy can be made and sold from your home. You can only sell your products to the end consumer (this means selling directly to the person who will be eating the product).

End consumer sales include:

  • Farmers markets

  • Fairs

  • Online sales that they pick up or you drop off directly  

Freeze-dried candy must have a label. The label must include:

  • Name of the product

  • Name of the person who made product

  • Address of where the food is being made (street address, city, state, and zip code)

  • List of ingredients

  • List of allergens (9 major food allergens from the FDA)

  • Weight of product

  • A statement that the product is prepared in a kitchen that is not subject to inspection by the health department

The above rules only apply to candy that is not deemed potentially hazardous. Items that are not deemed potentially hazardous include shelf-stable items like jellybeans, laffy taffy, or gummy worms.

If you have questions about what is and is not potentially hazardous, please contact LCHD (Lincoln County Health Department) by calling (636) 528-6117 and pressing 2.



If you want to sell items through a third party (such as a store front), you must:

  • Make the product in a regularly inspected kitchen

  • Get a food permit from LCHD 

  • Contact the state health department (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services) by calling 573-751-6095


Freeze-dried fruits, vegetables, and meats:

These foods are deemed potentially hazardous. This means that they have a higher chance of making someone sick. This doesn’t fall under Cottage Food Law. If you want to make freeze dried fruits, vegetables, or meats you must do the following:

  • Have a kitchen that is regularly inspected by LCHD (this can’t be a home kitchen)

  • Get a food permit from LCHD

  • Have a HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) plan

  • Follow separate labeling rules

If you don’t have an approved HACCP plan from LCHD, you cannot receive a permit or sell these products.         

 

Please call LCHD at (636) 528-6117 and press 2 for more information.