Home baker and cook guide
How to sell homemade food in Arizona
Arizona requires cottage food preparers to maintain state registration and food-handler certification while following product-specific packaging, delivery, and temperature rules. Start with the official program below, then confirm the rules for your product, preparation setting, and local jurisdiction.
Official resources last reviewed 2026-07-21. Rules can change.
Official Arizona resources
Open the official pages below for registration, labeling, allowed foods, and temperature rules. This app collects your application only. After approval, classify every meal when you publish.
What the official pathway currently emphasizes
- Register with the Arizona Department of Health Services and keep an active accredited food-handler certificate.
- Prepare and package food in the registered home kitchen using approved ingredients and the state's required label statements.
- Shelf-stable foods may use qualifying third-party delivery, while TCS, meat, or poultry products have stricter in-person delivery and time-and-temperature controls.
- Cottage foods may be offered and delivered only within Arizona.
A practical preparation sequence
- Complete accredited food-handler training.
- Confirm the food and recipe fit the current approved-food or special-process guidance.
- Register through the ADHS Cottage Food Program.
- Build the required label, packaging, and delivery controls before accepting orders.
Questions to answer before listing
- Which foods may be produced in your proposed kitchen?
- Does the product require refrigeration or temperature control?
- Are registration, training, inspection, testing, or permits required?
- What must appear on the product label and customer disclosure?
- Where may you advertise, sell, deliver, ship, or arrange pickup?
- Do county, city, zoning, tax, or tribal rules add requirements?
Prepare your local kitchen page
Once you understand the applicable pathway, create a kitchen profile, describe your general pickup area, upload real food photos, and post specific preorder windows. Kitchen Counter-Measures does not approve a product on behalf of a regulator.