Cottage food label requirements in South Dakota

Last checked 5 August 2026 · Informational only, not legal or food-safety advice. Verify anything important with South Dakota Department of Health, Office of Health Protection / Food Service Program 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 South Dakota, read on 5 August 2026:

This product was not produced in a commercial kitchen. It has been home-processed in a kitchen that may also process common food allergens such as tree nuts, peanuts, eggs, soy, wheat, milk, fish and crustacean shellfish.

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

The detail

South Dakota fuses the not-inspected notice and the allergen warning into one disclaimer, so it is longer than most states and must be printed whole. Under SDCL 34-18-37 each container or package sold must also carry: product name, producer's name, physical address of production, producer's mailing address, producer's telephone number, date made or processed, ingredients, and a directive to keep refrigerated or frozen where that applies. No permit or licence for the home-processed route, and no sales cap, but sales must be direct and in the seller's physical presence (or personally delivered by the seller or a resident of the seller's home); wholesale and internet-shipped sales require a state licence. Producers selling canned, fermented, frozen or temperature-controlled baked goods must complete an approved food safety course every five years or hold third-party processing authority verification per recipe. Canned goods need pH 4.6 or below or water activity 0.85 or below.

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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