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North Dakota Cottage Food Law
North Dakota's cottage food law sets no statewide revenue cap and no state permit or registration is required. Direct sales, farmers markets, online, mail, interstate commerce, and consignment all permitted.
Watch for: ND is the only state currently permitting interstate cottage food shipments under its own law. If you want to ship across state lines, this is the path.
Key facts
Where you can sell
Direct sales, farmers markets, online, mail, interstate commerce, and consignment all permitted.
- Direct (in-person)
- Farmers markets
- Online (in-state)
- In-state mail
- Interstate shipping
- Consignment
What's required before your first sale
No permit required. TCS foods allowed. Standard label disclaimers.
Label requirements
- Verbatim disclosure required by NDCC 23-09.5-02(8): "This product is made in a home kitchen that is not inspected by the state or local health department." (North Dakota allows this either as a product label OR a conspicuous point-of-sale sign)
- For products requiring refrigeration: safe handling instructions plus a disclosure that the product was transported and maintained frozen (no fixed wording prescribed)
- North Dakota is a food-freedom state — agencies may not require licensure, permitting, registration, packaging, or labeling; the disclosure above is the one required element
- 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)
Generate your North Dakota disclosure label in one click
Ardent Seller assembles a print-ready cottage food label for North Dakota 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 North Dakota requires that's missing before you print. Included on every plan.
Sources
- North Dakota HHS — Cottage Food
- Forrager — cottage food law database
- North Dakota Century Code ch. 23-09.5 (§ 23-09.5-02), enacted by HB 1433
Reference content only — not legal advice. State laws change frequently. Verify against the official source before launching.
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