But she's not a mum selling her jam at a school fete, why are there no ingredients and legally covered labelling info (net-weight, fruit content, sell-by-date etc)?
even if she were, there are rules for cottage industry products. You also have to take a food safety course. Of course she is not making anything, but if she were there are rules. She is just 100% BS at this point and that should be on the label.
ETA: If she is not selling, the rules are somewhat different; if you give stuff away, there are not labeling rules. So she may have gotten by with it this first round, since they are not being sold.
Also, is it even strawberry season yet? In Monetcito?
The certification and TB testing etc. are required if you are selling; and you have to renew it and take a refresher class.
I, CB (*hair toss) had to do this in order to sell honey in my beekeeper days. the labeling laws were a combination of Federal and State. I could give it away no problem, but once I sold it I had a checklist of things that needed to be on the label -- it could all be on the back label, but it had to be on the jar. There were people at the farmers market to check this. And if you go over a certain amount of production, you need to have a certified kitchen, with regular inspections. I know a lot of small producers of products like jams, butters, baked goods, etc., so this business with the Hissing One really irks me. It is NOT easy to get a product to market, even a small cottage product at a farmers market. There are a lot of hoops to jump through and my respect to anyone who even tries, to be honest. No respect to Rachel, she sucks.
By the way after the safety certification course it took a long time before I could eat out again.