Regulations, Customer Requirements & Compliance

A helpful guide that clarifies food business categories with their corresponding definitions and license fees.

Owners of livestock and poultry in Oklahoma may have interest in marketing their animals, a portion of their animals or the meat/poultry from those animals directly to consumers. To accomplish this, the animals must be slaughtered and processed and prepared as finished meat/poultry cuts. There are four basic regulatory avenues for the direct marketing of meat/poultry, and each category has respective specifications and limitations within.

This fact sheet offers information on what is allowed and not allowed in a homemade food business according to the Homemade Food Freedom Act.

The standards of produce safety highlighting the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Produce Safety Rule (PSR).

Preventive Controls for Human Food rules and exemptions for food processors and the food industry’s estimated financial impacts associated with compliance.

A summarization of the major compliance requirements listed in the Preventive Controls for Human Food.

Information on why reducing or choosing alternatives to trans-fat food applications is a healthier choice.

Technical and practical information on the science and technology of frying food.