Need your business advice for my sis

Okay, so here's the story.

My sister (the mom of the nephew who's the aspiring musician) makes a killer Greek salad dressing. For years folks have told her she should bottle it. So now she's going to. But she doesn't know where to start. She needs advice on everything.

How do people go about turning their home recipes into commercial food products? If she wants to do it herself, not just sell the recipe to someone big, how does she go about it? Where do you find out what the laws and federal and state regulations are dealing with producing and selling food from home? How do you figure out how to make the product in a way that preserves it on the shelf? Do you call a nutritionist to help you?

She's a smart woman, with a good product, but has no idea how one goes about even beginning to research this top, let alone how to determine what she can and can't put in the recipe (fresh garlic?) in terms of whether it will stay okay in the bottle long term.

Any advice from folks familiar with starting your home food business would be much appreciated.

And that is the Aravosis family minute for the day :-)

Thanks guys, JOHN