can i sell baked goods at Car Boot Sale?

FuturemrsH

Advice needed please.

I need to make some money and thought i could do a car boot sale as i have a huge range of vintage china that i have collected over the years.

I was wondering though if i could sell home baked cakes alongside them at a car boot? or do i need certification or foods standards regualtions to do this?

thanks in advance

billsavings

You normally need a Food Hygiene/Safety certificate which has to be on display.

You also need public liability Insurance in case anyone has an allergy to your ingredients.

All food has to be labelled with ingredients and properly wrapped.

At my local car boot the local authority send people around to check you are complying.

lincroft1710

Some car boots don't allow sales of food, as it's competition for the authorised burger or ice cream vans etc.

POPPYOSCAR

billsavings wrote: »

You normally need a Food Hygiene/Safety certificate which has to be on display.

You also need public liability Insurance in case anyone has an allergy to your ingredients.

All food has to be labelled with ingredients and properly wrapped.

At my local car boot the local authority send people around to check you are complying.

What about at school fetes etc?

OldGreyFox

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

What about at school fetes etc?

How about https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2956532

LizD_2

I don't think the people I've seen selling cakes at boot sales have hygiene certificates etc. Although to be fair most of them look like they've baked a few cakes to add to the proceeds rather than trying to make a business of it.

skysky69

We have a village car boot and there is a man that turns up every week who sells the most delicious cakes and tarts - no hygiene certificates, I would imagine each car boot is different - give it a go? I have to say though, I am not sure how you stand if you give someone food poisoning, will they come back next week? Where there's blame there is a claim etc?

ndbruton

You don't need a food hygiene certificate by law, you only need to be able to show that you can handle and prepare food safely and providing the cakes are classed as 'low risk' (i.e. no dairy cream etc) this will be very simple to achieve by simple swotting up on good food hygiene practices and having a general idea of any food hazards you need to control (e.g. foreign bodies dropping into food, adequate cleaning etc).

You will need to register with your local authority as a food business however, contact your local Environmental Health Dept, they will send you out an application (it's free of charge). It's most likely that a car boot sale will want to know you are registered, and if the car boots are ever visited by EHO's you can prove you are operating legally. You may also receive a quick visit from an EHO to your home address so they can verify your domestic kitchen meets basic requirements and that will be that.

Additionally, if you intend to sell 'non-prepacked' or 'pre-packed for direct sale', the labelling requirements are very minimal. It would obviously pay for you to have a knowledge of ingredients, particularly from an allergens point of view, but full labelling is not needed.

nexus2011

They have started to nail people not registered and certified to sell food in places such as car boots especially as several people have nearly died in the past few months from severe food poisoning.