Home kitchen label rules in Manitoba

Last checked 5 August 2026 · Informational only, not legal or food-safety advice. Verify anything important with Manitoba Health public health inspectors 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.

Manitoba asks for no "not inspected" line

Manitoba publishes no such wording, so there is nothing you have to print. Everything else above still applies.

The detail

Manitoba has NO cottage food scheme. The province's own page states that preparing and serving food from home-based businesses for public consumption is prohibited, with one exception: non-potentially hazardous foods sold at a farmers' market, flea market, craft sale or bake sale, under the Farmers' Market Guidelines. Anything else needs a commercial kitchen and a health permit with regular inspections; a Food Handler Training Certificate on its own is not enough. The Farmers' Market Guidelines (June 2026 revision) put the health permit on the MARKET, held by a designated Market Coordinator, rather than on the individual vendor. Section 7 of those guidelines is the entire label rule for home-packaged food and requires exactly four things: business/vendor name and contact details (phone or email), common name of the food, ingredient list, and the date the food was prepared. There is no not-inspected line and no point size. Individually unpackaged or portioned products need no label at all, but the same information must be readily available from the vendor. Also prohibited: home-canned food other than jam, jelly and pickles; hermetically sealed containers not filled in a government inspected plant, same jam/jelly/pickle exception at pH 4.6 or lower; uninspected meat; unpasteurized milk. Potentially hazardous foods must be prepared, packaged and labelled by an approved establishment. Federal CFIA rules still apply on top.

Make one

Free, nothing saved, no account. It leaves the inspection line off, as Manitoba asks, 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
• Manitoba Health public health inspectors