Cottage food label requirements in Nebraska

Last checked 5 August 2026 · Informational only, not legal or food-safety advice. Verify anything important with Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer Protection before you print a run of labels.

What goes on the label

1. The product name, in words a customer would use.
2. Every ingredient, heaviest first.
3. The major allergens, called out separately from the ingredient list.
4. Who made it: your name or your business name.
5. How to reach you.
6. The date it was made.

What the label has to say

Nebraska describes what the label has to get across rather than publishing a sentence to copy. This is a common form of it, read on 5 August 2026:

This food was prepared in a kitchen that is not subject to regulation and inspection by the regulatory authority and may contain allergens.

Wording close to this is generally accepted.

The detail

This is not only a package label. The same notification must be given at the point of sale at a farmers market, fair, festival, craft show or other public event; and for pickup or delivery sales it must be given at the producer's home, on the producer's website if one exists, and in any print, radio, television or Internet advertising. A label-printing feature alone does not make a Nebraska producer compliant. The package itself must carry the producer's name and mailing address; time/temperature control foods additionally need ingredients in descending order by weight. Neb. Rev. Stat. 81-2,280 preempts local ordinances not in conformance with it, so a county or city cannot layer on extra label rules.

Make one

Free, nothing saved, no account. It fills in Nebraska's wording for you and prints a sheet.

What it is What is in it, heaviest first Make the labels

Where to verify all of this

Rules change, and this page can lag behind them. Before you rely on any of it:

• The rule itself