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Permits
Guides tagged Permits.
Who regulates your food business in Texas: DSHS, your county, and the Comptroller
Texas has four agencies that touch food vendors. Learn which one you actually need and what they control.
4 min readDo you need a food handler's card to sell at a farmers market?
The honest answer is: it depends on your state, your county, and what you sell. Here is what a food handler's card actually is, who usually needs one, and how to find your exact requirement in about 15 minutes.
6 min readWho regulates your food business in Florida: FDACS, DBPR, and DOH
Florida splits food oversight across three agencies, and picking the wrong one wastes weeks. A plain-English guide to what FDACS, DBPR, and DOH each regulate, the question that sorts most vendors, and the official tool that routes you to the right permit.
6 min readDo you need insurance to sell at a farmers market?
When a market requires coverage, the difference between general liability and product liability, what a certificate of insurance and "additional insured" mean, where small vendors get covered, what drives the cost, and how to have it ready before your first market.
5 min readSelling eggs at a farmers market: the rules first-timers miss
Eggs are popular and more regulated than they look. A plain-English walk through state egg rules, cleaning and candling and grading, carton and labeling requirements, keeping eggs cold, how flock size can change the rules, and where to confirm before you sell.
6 min readDo you need a license to sell at a farmers market?
A direct answer plus the full permit landscape: business registration, a sales tax permit, food permits, what the market itself requires, and scales for selling by weight, with exactly where to verify what applies to you.
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