Food safety

What this covers

Where the platform's responsibility ends and a seller's begins, for the safety of what's actually sold and handed off.

EZHomesteading is a marketplace, not a food business

EZHomesteading connects buyers and sellers and handles scheduling and payment. It doesn't grow, raise, make, inspect, store, or transport anything sold through it. A seller is solely responsible for the safety and quality of their own goods — how they're produced, handled, stored, and labeled, and for complying with whatever food-safety laws apply to what they sell where they sell it.

What the platform does do

Two things narrow the risk without the platform taking on food-safety responsibility itself:

• Prohibited items bans categories with a real, hard-to-mitigate safety risk — like home-canned low-acid goods — outright.
• Listing accuracy requires that a listing's photos and practice claims (how something was grown, raised, or made) be true, and disputes are judged against the listing as published.

Neither of these is a food-safety inspection. They reduce the chance a buyer is misled about what they're getting, which is different from certifying that it's safe.

If something seems unsafe

Report the listing or open a dispute — see Dispute and refund policy. For anything that seems like a genuine health risk, contact your local health department in addition to reporting it here.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as the marketplace changes. The date at the top is when it was last revised.