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New Mexico cottage food label rules

What has to be on the label when you sell homemade baked goods in New Mexico, and the limits that matter at a market. Checked September 2026.

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Your label must include

Required statement

“This product is home produced and is exempt from state licensing and inspection. This product may contain allergens.”

No font size is specified. A 2024 NM Farmers Marketing Association guide hyphenates it as ‘home-produced’; the statute and NMED use ‘home produced’.

Brown Butter Toffee Cookies

Sunny Crumb Co. · 123 Palm Ave, Your City, NM 00000

(305) 555-0188 · hello@sunnycrumb.co

Sunny Crumb Co. · 123 Palm Ave, Your City, NM 00000

Ingredients: enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (cream, salt), brown sugar, toffee bits (sugar, butter, almonds, soy lecithin), eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, sea salt.

This product is home produced and is exempt from state licensing and inspection. This product may contain allergens.

Sample label for illustration, made from the checklist above. Your own label has to match your recipe and your state’s exact rules.

Key limits in New Mexico

Permit: none from NMED (no registration or fee). A voluntary state permit exists, and some local jurisdictions may run their own permit systems.
Training: Food Handler Card from an NMED-approved food handler program, required before production
Sales cap: none
Where you can sell: Direct to consumers within NM: farmers markets, festivals, roadside stands, and home pickup or delivery. No sales to restaurants, wholesalers, distributors or retail.
Online & shipping: Internet sales and mail delivery are allowed within New Mexico. No out-of-state sales.
Law: Homemade Food Act, HB 177 (2021), effective July 1, 2021

What we could not confirm (3)

NMSA section numbers not confirmed
Whether Albuquerque/Bernalillo County requires a local permit
Allergen declaration beyond the ‘may contain allergens’ statement is not required by statute

Check with: New Mexico Environment Department, Food Program (City of Albuquerque Environmental Health may have its own rules)

Last change to the law: 2021 (effective July 1, 2021); no later amendment found

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This page is general information, not legal advice. Rules change and counties can add their own. Confirm with New Mexico Environment Department, Food Program (City of Albuquerque Environmental Health may have its own rules) before you print. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

New Mexico cottage food label rules

Your label must include

Required statement

Set up this label once. Print it for every cookie.

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