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[rooster]

hi  i made some hot sauce i wasn't planning on selling it. i was just going to give some to friends and keep some for my self. but several of my friends said it was good and that i needed to sell it. my question is if anybody knows what i need to do to sell it. do i need to get it fda approved or anything or can i just sell it. i'm not looking to get rich just make a little money. maybe set up a few bottles in my friends local barber shop

[The Hot Pepper]

You need to consider many things and not take this lightly.

1. Safe canning procedures and food production.
2. Legalities of production facility.
3. Applicable permits/licensing.
4. Food liability insurance.

Check with your local government. More than likely you will not be able to do the "farmers market" type permit since hot sauce is a low acid food. If you made cookies or jams, you'd have a much easier time, and in some states, could even use your own approved kitchen. But not for hot sauce.

[rooster]

thehotpepper.com, on 20 November 2011 - 08:09 PM, said:

You need to consider many things and not take this lightly.

1. Safe canning procedures and food production.
2. Legalities of production facility.
3. Applicable permits/licensing.
4. Food liability insurance.

Check with your local government. More than likely you will not be able to do the "farmers market" type permit since hot sauce is a low acid food. If you made cookies or jams, you'd have a much easier time, and in some states, could even use your own approved kitchen. But not for hot sauce.

thanks for the info

[salsalady]

http://www.thehotpep...ocess-approval/

http://www.thehotpep...ercial-kitchen/

http://www.thehotpep...minus-red-tape/

http://www.thehotpep...by-to-side-job/

Here's some good reading to get you started.  Should answer most of your first questions and get you pointed in the right direction.

Good Luck~
salsalady

[diglife]

salsalady, on 20 November 2011 - 09:48 PM, said:

http://www.thehotpep...ocess-approval/

http://www.thehotpep...ercial-kitchen/

http://www.thehotpep...minus-red-tape/

http://www.thehotpep...by-to-side-job/

Here's some good reading to get you started.  Should answer most of your first questions and get you pointed in the right direction.

Good Luck~
salsalady

Hi , thanks for the response in my copacker question. To be honest i would rather not use a copacker starting off.  I noticed in one of the links you sent me you posted that you got started for less than $500.  You mentioned $50 for insurance..is that food liability insurance? Did this budget allow you to get food nutrition labels and everything? Your list makes it sound at least a little easier to get something going on a small scale. Did you get your on PH scale and everything within this budget? Sorry just trying to get as much info as possible. I am seriously thinking about taking the next step : O )

[scottfree88]

When you get up and running some friends of mine just started a Chiili sauce website and are looking for some local chilli sauce suppliers, you are small now but they can help get you're name out their. check the website www.chillisaucebank.com.au

hope that helps in the bigger scheme of things.

[DoctorDeath]

diglife, on 28 November 2011 - 08:00 PM, said:

Hi , thanks for the response in my copacker question. To be honest i would rather not use a copacker starting off.  I noticed in one of the links you sent me you posted that you got started for less than $500.  You mentioned $50 for insurance..is that food liability insurance? Did this budget allow you to get food nutrition labels and everything? Your list makes it sound at least a little easier to get something going on a small scale. Did you get your on PH scale and everything within this budget? Sorry just trying to get as much info as possible. I am seriously thinking about taking the next step : O )

Lots of good information here, but I keep seeing "food nutrition labels."  Do you have a bottle of tobasco in your house?  Fine a food nutrition label on it.. You won't, after all why would you even need one with hot sauce??  Sodium?  There is nothing else in it worth mentioning on a food nutrition label and some of the biggest vendors on the planet do not include a nutrition label for this very reason.

Doctor out,.

[The Hot Pepper]

DoctorDeath, on 27 April 2012 - 08:25 PM, said:

Lots of good information here, but I keep seeing "food nutrition labels."  Do you have a bottle of tobasco in your house?  Fine a food nutrition label on it.. You won't, after all why would you even need one with hot sauce??  Sodium?  There is nothing else in it worth mentioning on a food nutrition label and some of the biggest vendors on the planet do not include a nutrition label for this very reason.

Doctor out,.

It's on the box.

[DoctorDeath]

Yes, you are correct.  But the though process of it being permanently attached to the bottle is not a fact.  Which is what the general consensus seems to be, not here but internet wide.  Just clarifying the fact that you only have to state it once, and not permanently.  For that matter, nearly every college has a culinary class, and one of the first things that you learn in a culinary class is how to separate food into its nutritional components.  Hire students, they are cheap and can help you a ton.

[The Hot Pepper]

Didn't see anyone state that here and please note these posts are international.

[salsalady]

Nutrition panels are not required for small processors.

Ingredients=yes, nutrition panel=no

I don't believe students are qualified to generate a nutrition panel.  I'm sure they can help work on a recipe, but nutritional analysis is different.