Tuesday, February 4, 2014

California legalizes sale of home-made food

California Legalized Selling Food Made At Home And Created Over A Thousand Local Businesses - Forbes - Adam Ozimek, Institute for Justice:

January 29, 2014 - "A government official appears at a man’s door. The man has been breaking the law: He has sold bread baked at home.

"This isn’t a page from Kafka — it happened to Mark Stambler in Los Angeles.

"For decades, Stambler has followed traditional methods to bake loaves of French bread.... Stambler’s loaves came in first place at the Los Angeles County Fair and the California State Fair.... Soon after that, Stambler got the idea to expand his hobby into a home business, which became Pagnol Boulanger.... In June 2011,  the Los Angeles Times profiled Stambler and his bread in a full-page feature.

"He was busted the very next day. As he described it, the health department 'descended like a ton of bricks on the two stores that were selling my bread…they could no longer sell my bread'.... An inspector from the health department even showed up at his doorstep to make sure 'no bread baking was taking place'.... That’s when he 'became an activist,' Stambler said."

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/01/29/california-legalized-selling-food-made-at-home-and-created-over-a-thousand-local-businesses/
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