Food facilities: private homes.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, and defines a food facility to mean an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level, as specified. Existing law exempts, among others, a private home, including a registered or permitted cottage food operation from the definition of food facility. This bill would additionally exempt from the definition of food facility, a private home that meets specified requirements, including that the private home is not open to the public and the cook directly sells the food to the consumer after fully informing the consumer on all of the cook's methods of food preparation and handling.