Kansas Cottage Food Law

Kansas's cottage food law sets no statewide revenue cap and no state permit or registration is required. Any direct-to-consumer sale of foods that do not require time and temperature control for safety or specialized processing: farmers markets, craft fairs, bazaars, fairs, festivals, from home, and online. The Kansas Department of Agriculture says Internet sales, including shipping, are allowed under this license exemption, subject to the receiving states' requirements — orders shipped out of Kansas must also satisfy the destination state's rules and federal FDA requirements. The seller may not relinquish control of the product except to the end consumer: consignment, wholesale, and sales to restaurants, grocery stores, or other businesses (including leaving product at a craft mall) require a KDA license.

Watch for: No cap and no registration, but the exemption covers only direct-to-consumer sales of non-TCS foods: consignment, wholesale, or leaving product with a craft mall, store, or restaurant needs a KDA license, and orders shipped to another state must meet that state's rules as well as federal requirements.

Annual revenue cap

No cap

Permit / registration

Not required

Kitchen inspection

Not required

Food handler training

Not required

Acidified foods

Excluded

Interstate shipping

In-state only

Where you can sell

Any direct-to-consumer sale of foods that do not require time and temperature control for safety or specialized processing: farmers markets, craft fairs, bazaars, fairs, festivals, from home, and online. The Kansas Department of Agriculture says Internet sales, including shipping, are allowed under this license exemption, subject to the receiving states' requirements — orders shipped out of Kansas must also satisfy the destination state's rules and federal FDA requirements. The seller may not relinquish control of the product except to the end consumer: consignment, wholesale, and sales to restaurants, grocery stores, or other businesses (including leaving product at a craft mall) require a KDA license.

Direct (in-person)
Farmers markets
Online (in-state)
In-state mail

What's required before your first sale

No license, registration, inspection, or training requirement for food produced for distribution directly to the end consumer that does not require time and temperature control for safety or specialized processing (K.S.A. 65-689(d)(4)). Non-exempt foods — for example cream or meringue pies, cheesecake, custards, jerky, pickles, canned vegetables, and cut produce — require a KDA food establishment or processing license, and home-canned products other than traditional jams and jellies are prohibited without licensing. Exempt producers can still be inspected when a violation is observed or reported (K.S.A. 65-689(e)).

Label requirements

Common name of the product
Name and physical address of the person who made or is selling the product
Product ingredients in descending order of predominance by weight, with the nine major food allergens named in plain language (MF3138, revised January 2026)
Net quantity (weight, volume, or count)
Kansas requires NO "homemade" or "not inspected" disclosure statement on cottage food labels (KDA/KSU MF3138) — only a narrow exception for unpasteurized juice/cider (the FDA juice warning) applies
Federal allergen labeling under FALCPA + FASTER Act: "Contains:" statement for any of the nine major allergens (milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame)

How Ardent Seller helps

Generate your Kansas disclosure label in one click

Ardent Seller assembles a print-ready cottage food label for Kansas from data you already track — the state's required disclosure statement rendered verbatim (and sized to meet the state's minimum type size where one applies), your operator info, ingredients in descending order by weight, the federal "Contains:" allergen line, net weight, and lot code. A validation checklist flags anything Kansas requires that's missing before you print. Included on every plan.

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