Louisiana cottage food label requirements and low-risk homemade food checklist
Answer a few plain-English questions about what you make and how you want to sell it. We check it against Louisiana's current low-risk homemade food statute, flag the choices that fall outside the exemption, and build you a practical checklist plus a printable label draft.
Free customized label/checklist after walk-through completion
Built from the current public Louisiana statute page for R.S. 40:4.9. Not legal advice and not state approval — rules can change, and a 2026 proposal exists but is not modeled here as live law, so verify final requirements with the current statute text and your local tax authority before selling.
Free permit walk-throughSee fast whether your product, sales volume, or bakery resale setup falls outside Louisiana's current exemption.
Free checklistKeep the statute-based next steps tied to your product category, sales plan, and tax setup.
Free label generationDraft a practical label with the non-licensed-facility disclosure and your own product details.
Can you sell homemade food in Louisiana?
Sometimes. Louisiana's current law is narrower than a full food-freedom state: it only covers listed low-risk categories, keeps a current gross-sales cap below $30,000, and ties use of the exemption to local sales-tax registration. Bakery sellers also have two specific traps: breads, cakes, cookies, and pies cannot be sold for resale, and the bakery carveout does not apply if another individual is employed to help prepare them.