This is great news for bakers, candy makers, jammers, dehydraters, pasta makers and mixers of all kinds. It lowers what we in the business call “barriers to entry” allowing low risk foods to be prepared in a home kitchen as opposed to finding a commercial kitchen (and the expenses & hassles that go along with that) to prepare it. I suspect this will make our markets much more robust and be a boon for foodie entrepreneurs. The doors have just flown wide open.

While this only allows sales direct to consumer, not wholesale, imagine this scenario: get your product into a community market and area chefs who taste your product might just hire you to make goods for them in their certified kitchen. Voila, job created! Income earned!