Selling dried herbs

Charityworker

I organise craft fayres. I've got an elderly lady who sells pot pourri at my fayres who says she wants to start selling a dried version of the home grown herbs from her garden for people to use in their cooking. I said I would try to find out if there are any rules and regs about this but I can't find much. Any ideas?

Savvy_Sue

Ask your local environmental health dept? Or the local WI?

Mistral001

Since they are meant to be eaten, I would have thought they come under food. So look for regulations for selling food.

londonTiger

Lot of money to be made in marijuana, as long as you have large country estate which you can hide the marijuana smell away from neighbours

slink85

londonTiger wrote: »

Lot of money to be made in marijuana, as long as you have large country estate which you can hide the marijuana smell away from neighbours

meh, just grow it in a 2 up 2 down terrace, completely sealed windows and use carbon filters on the extraction :eek:

martindow

Local authorities usually have a department dealing with food safety who will deal with this. Unfortunately they may want impossible things like a separate sink for hand washing which make this scheme impossible. There are no doubt labelling regulations that also need to be complied with.

A lot of people just get on and do a small scale operation under the radar, but there could be real problems if the local authority find out about it or worse still someone claims to have been made ill by the herbs.

somethingcorporate

martindow wrote: »

Local authorities usually have a department dealing with food safety who will deal with this. Unfortunately they may want impossible things like a separate sink for hand washing which make this scheme impossible. There are no doubt labelling regulations that also need to be complied with.

A lot of people just get on and do a small scale operation under the radar, but there could be real problems if the local authority find out about it or worse still someone claims to have been made ill by the herbs.

Having a sink just for hand washing is an impossibility? :rotfl:

martindow

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Having a sink just for hand washing is an impossibility? :rotfl:

No, but if this lady is asked to install an additional sink or make other alterations to her kitchen it will not be worthwhile for selling a few Pounds worth of herbs.

Charityworker

Ok thanks for your replies. I've looked into it and you don't have to have a separate hand washing sink. A hand washing sink in your bathroom will suffice.

martindow

Charityworker wrote: »

Ok thanks for your replies. I've looked into it and you don't have to have a separate hand washing sink. A hand washing sink in your bathroom will suffice.

Have you asked your local authority what requirements they have? They could visit and check out what they require. From other threads it seems that different authorities can interpret hygiene regulations in very different ways.