Home bakers in New Jersey stew over country’s last ban
By Josh Cornfield | AP June 18 at 12:09 PM
TRENTON, N.J. — There’s only one thing preventing baker Mandy Coriston from selling the Irish soda bread she makes from her great-grandmother’s recipe inside her old cast-iron skillets: She lives in New Jersey.
New Jersey is now the only state in the U.S. where people can’t sell home-baked goods after a Wisconsin court this month invalidated that state’s ban.
Wisconsin officials have said they may appeal the judge’s decision, but the state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would allow home bakers to sell without a license.
A push by a group including Coriston to overturn New Jersey’s law has drawn plenty of supporters over the last eight years, but one state lawmaker has so-far blocked it from being considered because of concerns over public health issues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/home-bakers-in-new-jersey-stew-over-countrys-last-ban/2017/06/18/138bc4ce-5440-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.f19524357047
Not being able to regulate the industry is why Trenton is against it.