What should I do if someone is selling products that are not compliant with this law?
For products containing meat, poultry, and/or dairy: Notify the Department of Livestock by phone at 406-444-5202 or by email at LIVFoodSafety@mt.gov.
For products containing rabbit: Notify the Department of Health and Human Services.
For products containing drugs, or dietary supplements: Notify the Department of Health and Human Services.
For products containing alcohol or marijuana: Notify the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Revenue.
Cottage Food Products (Montana Code Annotated (M.C.A.) 50.50.1 (4)): foods that are not potentially hazardous and are processed or packaged in a cottage food operation, including jams, jellies, dried fruit, dry mixes, and baked goods. Other similar foods that are not potentially hazardous may be defined by the department by rule.
Potentially hazardous food (M.C.A. 50.50.1(16)): foods that require time and temperature control for safety to limit toxin formation or the growth of pathogenic microorganisms.
Homemade Food (M.C.A. 50-49-202 (3)): food or a food product that is prepared in a private home and that is not licensed, permitted, certified, packaged, labeled, or inspected per any official regulations.
Informed end consumer (M.C.A. 50-49-202(4)): A person who is the last person to purchase a product, does not resell the product, and has been informed that the product is not licensed, permitted, certified, packaged, labeled, or inspected per any official regulations.
Livestock ( M.C.A. 81-2-702 (5)): cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, llamas, alpacas, bison, swine, ostriches, rheas, emus, goats, alternative livestock as defined in M.C.A. 87-4-406, and other animals.
Meat ( M.C.A. 81-9-217(7)): the edible flesh of livestock or poultry and includes livestock and poultry products.