Cottage food label requirements in New Mexico

Last checked 5 August 2026 · Informational only, not legal or food-safety advice. Verify anything important with New Mexico Environment Department 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

As published for New Mexico, read on 5 August 2026:

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

This is published as fixed text, so reproduce it exactly rather than rewording it.

The detail

No permit or registration under the Homemade Food Act. Label (or bulk-container label, point-of-sale place card, or the web page where the item is sold) must also carry the processor's name, HOME ADDRESS, telephone number and email address; the common name of the item; and ingredients in descending order of predominance INCLUDING sub-ingredients, e.g. 'butter (cream (milk), salt)'. NMED enforces; it can order a mislabeled product corrected immediately or fine the producer, and NMED (possibly with the NM Department of Health) investigates foodborne illness complaints. Note that the required text is two sentences and both are mandatory.

Make one

Free, nothing saved, no account. It fills in New Mexico'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
• New Mexico Environment Department