Online marketplaces, such as Etsy.com, provide a venue for artisans, crafters, and artists to sell their handmade wares to a broad audience. But, along with jewellery, clothing, and art, shoppers can find cookies, cupcakes, and other foods, which receive little or no regulation by Etsy or other state or federal agencies.
“There has always been small-scale food production outside the purview of normal commerce, and this is one of those instances,” said Bill Marler, an attorney whose law firm, Marler Clark, focuses on food safety.
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