You must register your home-based food business, and comply with food safety standards if you are preparing or storing food at home for sale to consumers.
Preparing or storing food at home for later sale (including in-kind rewards) is considered a food business and requires registration with us.
You must follow the same rules that apply to commercial food premises if cooking food for sale at home.
Home-based businesses must be small scale and not use more than 10% of the floor area of the home.
Examples of a home-based business include:
- Baking sweets, cakes, or bread at home in a domestic kitchen for sale at markets etc
- Preparation of food for sale to online customers.
before you start your application, you will need to check to see that your address is in the Bayside LGA. The mapping tool will allow you to do an address or property search.