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New Jersey Bakers find the recipe for entrepreneurship
On January 10, 2022, legislation was passed by both the state Assembly and Senate to codify Cottage Food production regulations set forth by an administrative rule change that went into effect in October 2021. This was a culmination of efforts by food freedom proponents throughout New Jersey—work that took more than a decade— to see the state end its holdout as the last with a ban on the sale of homemade foods.