North Dakota’s Health Department receives stream of written opposition to cottage food rules
BISMARCK — All but a few written comments from the public accuse North Dakota’s Health Department of onerous regulations in proposed rules for cottage foods.
The Health Department received 54 written comments on the rules before a recent deadline, few of them in favor of the rules for a 2017 law that expanded direct-to-consumer sales of uninspected home-baked and canned foods.
State health officials have said the law needs rules to safeguard public health and to clarify definitions as to what foods can be sold.
