# How are sales of food over the internet regulated?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 28, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-sales-of-food-over-the-internet-regulated/558651 "2010-10-28T13:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-sales-of-food-over-the-internet-regulated/558651/1 "2010-10-28T13:22:27Z")

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If they are.

If someone decides to turn his prize winning barbecue sauce into a cottage industry and sells it on line does he deal with the health department the way someone doing local sales from a home kitchen would?

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-sales-of-food-over-the-internet-regulated/558651/2 "2010-10-28T14:16:35Z")

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IANAL but AFAIK in general the same rules and regulations would apply whether the “store” is physical or virtual. [Cite](http://www.pickyourown.org/sell_your_homecanned_food.htm).