Dog & cat treats, pet food — excluded from Cottage Food
FEED LICENSE REQUIRED
Bottom line: Even a simple peanut-butter dog biscuit is excluded from cottage food — pet food runs through Florida's commercial feed law, with every product label filed with FDACS before it's sold anywhere, including a farmers market table.
The Path
Pet food and treats are explicitly excluded from cottage food, regardless of how simple the recipe. Selling them requires an FDACS commercial feed license/registration under Fla. Stat. Ch. 580, and a label for each individual product or brand must be filed with FDACS before that product is sold anywhere — farmers-market sales count the same as retail. AAFCO's model regulations govern nutritional adequacy claims, so a "complete and balanced" claim needs real substantiation behind it, and "human grade" can't be claimed unless the product is made in a facility that meets 21 CFR Part 117 cGMP standards — a home kitchen doesn't qualify.