Inspector can require pets out of the kitchen · State rule (counties usually restate it)
Pets in a Connecticut microbakery kitchen
Connecticut cottage-food operators are licensed and inspected. Pets in the kitchen during the inspection can fail you.
Cottage / exemption path
Conn. Gen. Stat. §21a-62a creates a licensed cottage-food path through DCP. The statute does not say “no pets in the home.” The inspection is where kitchen animals become a problem.
Inspected / home-bakery path
DCP inspects the residential kitchen. Inspectors apply food-establishment sanitation, including animals in the food-prep area.
Research note
This is not a dwelling-wide pet ban in statute. It is an inspected kitchen.
Conn. Gen. Stat. §21a-62a · verified 2026-08-19
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