Doing Business 08/03/06

Host: Jane E Haskell, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Topic: Selling the Food that You Make

How do you make sure that there is a market for the food that you make?

How do you find out if there are state regulatory and licensing requirements for home food businesses

What are the requirements?

Guests:

Alfred A. Bushway, Professor,Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Hitchner Hall 109, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5736 Phone: (207) 581-1629, Email: bushway@maine.edu Beth Calder, PhD., Extension Food Science Specialist 5735 Hitchner Hall, Rm #232, Orono, ME 04469-5735 Phone: (207) 581-2791, Email: beth.calder@umit.maine.edu

C. Joyce Kleffner, Extension Educator, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Hancock County Office, 63 Boggy Brook Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605 Phone: 1-800-287-1479 (Maine) or 207-667-8212

Jim Picariello, President, Wise-Acre, Inc. 173 Varnumville RD, Brooksville ME 04617

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