Nevada: the home-kitchen movement
Cottage food (restricted) Cottage food law · Craft food operation (acidified foods)
Nevada cottage food is currently district-led: producers register (and pay a fee) with each local health district where they make or sell, under interim rules at NRS 580.600 — shelf-stable foods only, $35,000/yr cap, direct in-person sales only. AB352 (2025) moves the program to the Nevada Department of Agriculture as a single statewide license effective July 1, 2027, raising the cap to $100,000 and allowing phone/internet sales.
Status, history, and administering agency are verified from the state law guide's primary sources. Supporter/opposition research for this state is still in progress — nothing is listed until it can be sourced.
Where it stands
2024: no regular legislative session (Nevada meets in odd years), no changes. 2025: AB352 (Assemblymember Anderson; approved June 9, 2025 as Chapter 420, Statutes of Nevada) — the biggest Nevada cottage-food overhaul ever: repealed NRS 446.866 and NRS Chapter 446 food-establishment provisions, recodified the interim rules at NRS 580.600 (in effect until June 30, 2027), and created a new state-licensed cottage food regime (NRS Chapter 585) effective July 1, 2027. From that date: the Nevada Department of Agriculture replaces all local health districts as the single licensing authority; annual sales cap rises from $35,000 to $100,000; telephone/internet sales allowed (fulfilled in person, by mail, or via food-delivery platform); allowed-foods list revised (adds teas, dried vegetables); local governments still cannot ban cottage food operations. AB352 also raised the separate craft-food (acidified) cap from $35,000 to $100,000 effective July 1, 2027, allowed phone/internet orders fulfilled in person, and dropped the approved-recipe and batch-log requirements for craft food. NDA is writing the new regulations between 2025 and July 2027. 2026: no regular session — nothing pending; the next regular session is 2027. No MEHKO-style or food-freedom program was enacted in 2024-2026.
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Cottage food fight in Nevada
- 2025 — Cottage food law
2025: AB352 (Assemblymember Anderson; approved June 9, 2025 as Chapter 420, Statutes of Nevada) — the biggest Nevada cottage-food overhaul ever: repealed NRS 446.866 and NRS Chapter 446 food-establishment provisions, recodified the interim rules at NRS 580.600 (in effect until June 30, 2027), and created a new state-licensed cottage food regime (NRS Chapter 585) effective July 1, 2027. Source
How we got here
- 2024 — Cottage food law
2024: no regular legislative session (Nevada meets in odd years), no changes. Source - 2025 — Cottage food law Cottage food fight
2025: AB352 (Assemblymember Anderson; approved June 9, 2025 as Chapter 420, Statutes of Nevada) — the biggest Nevada cottage-food overhaul ever: repealed NRS 446.866 and NRS Chapter 446 food-establishment provisions, recodified the interim rules at NRS 580.600 (in effect until June 30, 2027), and created a new state-licensed cottage food regime (NRS Chapter 585) effective July 1, 2027. Source - — Cottage food law
From that date: the Nevada Department of Agriculture replaces all local health districts as the single licensing authority; annual sales cap rises from $35,000 to $100,000; telephone/internet sales allowed (fulfilled in person, by mail, or via food-delivery platform); allowed-foods list revised (adds teas, dried vegetables); local governments still cannot ban cottage food operations. Source - 2027 — Cottage food law Cottage food fight
AB352 also raised the separate craft-food (acidified) cap from $35,000 to $100,000 effective July 1, 2027, allowed phone/internet orders fulfilled in person, and dropped the approved-recipe and batch-log requirements for craft food. Source
Supporters
Supporter research for this state is in progress — nothing is listed until it can be sourced.
Opposition
No on-record opposition has been verified for this state yet.
The deciders
Governor
Office of the Governor of Nevada (name not yet verified in this research pass)
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