Cottage Food Laws Nevada: What Home Bakers Can Sell

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1. What the law lets you make at home
2. Register before your first sale
3. Inspections and delivery orders
4. Labels, prices, and the rest of the paperwork

This guide pulls the rules from the state’s own cottage foods guide, the Nevada Revised Statutes, and the 2025 legislation that changed how delivery works. If you are still working out what to bake and what to charge, our guide to finding the rule that applies to you is a good place to start, and cottage food laws labels covers what has to go on the package.

What the law lets you make at home

SB 206, passed in May 2013, allows a limited set of foods that are not potentially hazardous to be prepared in a person’s home, as long as that person has registered as a cottage food operation. The state Division of Public and Behavioral Health publishes a cottage foods guide, and that guide is where the current list of covered foods lives. Read it before you plan a menu, because a bake that falls outside the list is not covered by the cottage food rules.

It helps to see the shape of the law. NRS 446 treats selling, offering, or displaying for consideration food prepared in a private home as a prohibited act. The cottage food law passed in 2013 created the registration route, and holding that registration is what separates a lawful home bakery from a prohibited sale.

Register before your first sale

Cottage foods registration is one of the inspection program categories the Division of Public and Behavioral Health oversees, so this is a real step, not a formality. Keep your registration where you can put your hands on it, because you will be asked for it.

1. 1

   Read the state cottage foods guide

   The Division of Public and Behavioral Health publishes a cottage foods guide. Start there for the list of foods covered by SB 206.

2. 2

   Register as a cottage food operation

   Registration is what separates a lawful home bakery from a prohibited sale under NRS 446.

3. 3

   Have proof ready if you registered elsewhere

   The Nevada cottage food consumer application includes a section for uploading documents proving registration with other health districts for operations in Washoe, Carson City, Douglas or Clark counties.

Inspections and delivery orders

Under NRS 580, the food safety authority may inspect a cottage food operation only to investigate a food item that may be deemed adulterated under NRS 585.300 to 585.360. In 2025, Assembly Bill 352 changed the delivery picture: section 26 makes a cottage food operation a food dispensing establishment, which applies the rules governing food delivery services to the delivery of food items from these operations. If you hand orders off through a delivery service, read that section with your own situation in mind.

Labels, prices, and the rest of the paperwork

A label is a separate job from your registration, and it is the part customers see first. Our guide to cottage food laws labels goes through what belongs on yours. If you are unsure whether an ingredient is allowed, cottage food laws and eggs shows how to check one common ingredient before you build a recipe around it.

Pricing is the other thing worth getting right early. Brevl’s recipes carry real costing, so the number you charge is built from what the batch actually costs you, and you can take card payments through your own Stripe or Square account alongside Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash. It works on a phone and on a computer, your shop carries your own photos, colors, and web address, and a real person answers when you get stuck.

Common questions

Do I need a permit or a registration to sell baked goods from home in Nevada?

The cottage food law passed in 2013, SB 206, allows limited foods that are not potentially hazardous to be prepared in a person's home, provided that person has registered as a cottage food operation. Registering is the step that puts you inside the law.

Can I sell food I made in my kitchen without registering?

NRS 446 lists selling, offering, or displaying for consideration food prepared in a private home among prohibited acts, along with operating a food establishment without a valid permit from the health authority. Selling before you register falls into that territory.

Will someone inspect my kitchen?

Under NRS 580, the food safety authority may inspect a cottage food operation only to investigate a food item that may be deemed adulterated under NRS 585.300 to 585.360. Cottage foods registration is also listed among the inspection program categories the Division of Public and Behavioral Health oversees.

I live in Clark County. Is anything different for me?

The Nevada cottage food consumer application includes a section for uploading documents proving cottage food operation registration with other health districts in Nevada for operations located in Washoe, Carson City, Douglas or Clark counties. Have those documents ready when you apply.

Can I deliver orders to customers?

Section 26 of Assembly Bill 352 makes a cottage food operation a food dispensing establishment, which applies the provisions governing food delivery service platforms to the delivery of food items from such operations. If you use a delivery service, that section applies to you.

Does the same registration cover cottage cosmetics?

No. Assembly Bill 352 requires a person to apply to the State Department of Agriculture for a license to conduct a cottage cosmetics operation and sets out requirements for that application. It is a separate license from cottage food.

Sources

1. Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health: Cottage Foods Guide
2. Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 446
3. Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 580
4. Assembly Bill 352 (2025), section 26
5. Assembly Bill 352 (2025), full text
6. Nevada cottage food consumer application
7. Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health: Inspections

General information, not legal advice. Rules change, so confirm the current requirements with the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health before you sell.