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Cottage Food Producer Food Safety Training to be held in Long Prairie

Do you make the best homemade bread, home canned pickles or cookies? Consider selling your product as a Minnesota Cottage Food producer. Join University of Minnesota Extension Food Safety Educator, Suzanne Driessen at the Keep it Legal! Keep it Safe Cottage Food Producer class in Long Prairie on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 from 9 a.m. -11 a.m., Wellness Center at Centra Care Clinic Long Prairie. The class meets the Minnesota Department of Agriculture food safety training requirements to register as a Minnesota Cottage Food Producer to sell homemade baked goods, candy, home-canned peaches, pickles, salsa, jam and jellies and more.

The course focuses on food safety practices for all processes covered under the Cottage Food Law including drying, baking, confections, jams and jellies, acid and acidified fruit and vegetables, and fermentation. Participants learn how to produce, package, label, store, and transport a safe food product. Wonder if your product is an allowable non-potentially hazardous food? Bring it along to the class and have it tested to see if it meets exemption requirements under the Cottage Food Law.

Please Register for this Free class by May 1st, 2019 by contacting Kristin at the University of Minnesota Extension –Todd County by email ksaarela@umn.edu or call

320-732-4435 .

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Source: Suzanne Driessen, Extension food safety educator, driessen@umn.edu, (320) 203-6057, U of M Extension Regional Office, St. Cloud

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