If you pack food where you sell it, this law is yours
PPDS is critical for many small food businesses. The FSA publishes its own guidance for bakers, butchers, and mobile sellers and street food vendors, and every business below is in scope on the same legal terms. Pick yours.
Baking
Bakery
A bakery with its own premises, selling over the counter or wholesale.
Bread maker
Bakes bread (loaves, rolls, sourdough) at home, in a shed or in a small bakehouse, and sells direct, at markets or to local shops.
Home baker
Bakes in a home kitchen and sells direct: to order, online, or at events.
Cake shed
Sells cakes and bakes from a shed, honesty box or roadside stand.
Sweets & preserves
Chocolatier
Chocolates, truffles and bars.
Confectioner
Fudge, sweets, brittle, marshmallows and the like.
Jam & preserve maker
Jams, chutneys, pickles and sauces.
Shops & counters
Markets & street food
Market stall
Sells at markets, fairs and events from a stall, mostly food packed before market day.
Street food
Cooks and serves hot food to order from a van, trailer or gazebo.