Inspector can require pets out of the kitchen · State rule (counties usually restate it)
Pets in a Delaware microbakery kitchen
Delaware’s cottage-food program is registered and inspected. Pets are a kitchen-during-inspection issue, not a published separate-room statute.
Cottage / exemption path
16 Del. Admin. Code 4458A is the cottage-food rule set. It does not require a second kitchen. Animals in the food-prep area during inspection are a sanitation fail.
Inspected / home-bakery path
Farm Home Processing is a separate inspected tier for farmers.
16 Del. Admin. Code 4458A · verified 2026-08-19
Places with a specific local sentence
Not just “state baseline applies”
- Kent County
DPH may assess home kitchen during inspection; pets likely would be required away from food prep areas.
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