Food Entrepreneur Resource
Center
The following New Hampshire Agencies,
provided with contact information, impact the Specialty
Food Business. Please refer to your phone
book for local agencies, chambers of commerce, and
local health department information.
List of Agency Sites: http://www.state.nh.us/agency/locator.html
Food Business
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/index.nsf?Open
Bureau of Food Protection
http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/ProgramSupport/Food_Protect.nsf/vMain?OpenView
Licensing and inspecting retail foodservice establishments including: restaurants,
grocery stores, caterers, mobile food units, bakeries, home food manufacturers/processors.
Also approves plan reviews for new and remodeled food service establishments.
Acts as the State Shellfish Sanitation Control Authority for
the commercial sale and processing of shellfish.
Bureau of Food Protection
129 Pleasant St
Concord, NH, 03301-3857
Telephone: (603) 271-4589
1-800-852-3345 ext 4589 (in state)
Fax: (603) 271-4859
Email: foodprotection@dhhs.state.nh.us
View a list of Self-Inspecting
cities and towns in New Hampshire.
Department of Agriculture, Markets
and Food
http://www.state.nh.us/agric/aghome.html
PO Box 2042
Concord, NH 03302
Telephone: 603-271-3551
Fax: 603-271-1109
Bureau of Markets
Oversees Farm products for sale. Certifies farms as Organic.
603-271-2753, 3685
Agriculture Development -- (603)271-3788
Plant Industry -- (603)271-2561
Weekly Market Bulletin -- (603)271-2505
Weights & Measures Bureau -- (603)271-3700
NH Specialty Food Association
http://www.nhspecialtyfoods.com/
We provide marketing, business and product development
assistance to specialty food processors at all levels;
from pre-venture to established companies, and promote
an active state-wide network for marketing and selling
specialty foods in and out of the region.
NH Specialty Food Association
7 Wall St.
Concord, NH 03301
(603)224-9698 or e-mail at
nhcooks@nh.ultranet.com
University of New Hampshire Cooperative
Extension
http://ceinfo.unh.edu/
Agricultural marketing assistance, sustainable
farming, business assistance
Safe Food Handling for Specialty Food Producers
- programs and publications:
http://ceinfo.unh.edu/sfhsfp.htm
State Office
Taylor Hall, UNH
59 College Road
Durham, NH 03824-3587
603-862-1520
General Business
Office of Business and Industrial Development
http://www.ded.state.nh.us/obid/
Marketing assistance, Business development assistance, training programs
172 Pembroke Road
P.O. Box 1856
Concord, NH 03302-1856
603.271.2591
Fax: 603.271.6784
NH Corporation Division
http://www.state.nh.us/sos/corporate/index.htm
Business registry, forms for form-of-business registration
State House, Room 204
107 North Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-3244
Department of Revenue Administration
http://www.state.nh.us/revenue/
Taxation information, registration
45 Chenell Drive,
PO Box 457
Concord, NH 03302-0457
603- 271-2191
Fax: 603- 271-6121
TDD Access: Relay NH 1-800- 735-2964
NH Business Finance Authority
http://www.state.nh.us/bfa/bfa.htm
Information on the programs and loan guarantees
offered by the Authority to small businesses in
New Hampshire.
14 Dixon Avenue, Suite 101
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-2391
Fax: (603) 271-2396
US Small
Business Administration
New Hampshire Division
http://www.sba.gov/nh
New Hampshire District Office
143 N. Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-225-1400
Fax: 603-225-1409
