Missouri Cottage Food Law

Missouri's cottage food law sets no statewide revenue cap and no state permit or registration is required. Direct sales, farmers markets, online, and retail sales permitted.

Watch for: Missouri lifted its cap and opened online sales recently. One of the more permissive states for scaling cottage food.

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

Direct sales, farmers markets, online, and retail sales permitted.

Direct (in-person)
Farmers markets
Online (in-state)
Retail / grocery

What's required before your first sale

No registration required for shelf-stable products. TCS items require training. Limited wholesale allowed.

Label requirements

Full name and address of the cottage food production operation
Common name of the food
Ingredient list in descending order of predominance by weight
Net weight of the food
A statement that the food is not inspected by the department or local health department (RSMo § 196.298 prescribes this required content, not a fixed verbatim sentence — the operator supplies wording that conveys it)
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 Missouri disclosure label in one click

Ardent Seller assembles a print-ready cottage food label for Missouri 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 Missouri requires that's missing before you print. Included on every plan.

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