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Nobody licenses a resin workshop the way they license a dairy. The rules you will meet are about waste and about what you sell, not about making it.

Making it is largely unregulated

There is no process to file and no inspection of the kind the food crafts face. What applies is general workplace safety if you have anybody working for you, and that is a different conversation from a license.

Waste is where it gets specific

Uncured resin, hardener, solvent and contaminated rags are regulated waste in most places, and the thresholds and routes vary. Cured resin is usually ordinary waste. Ask your local authority what applies at your volume rather than assuming the household rules cover it.

Selling to consumers brings the FHSA in

If what you sell is the resin itself rather than a finished casting, you are selling a chemical into households and the Federal Hazardous Substances Act reaches it. That is a labeling regime with its own requirements and it catches people who start reselling kits.

Finished pieces are a different product entirely

A cured coaster is an article, not a chemical. Selling those raises the questions any craft product raises, and if they are intended for children it raises a much heavier set about toy safety that is worth researching before, not after.

Anything food contact is its own question

A resin-coated board or a tumbler is a food contact claim, and whether a cured resin is suitable for it depends on the specific product and what the manufacturer says about it. Treat a food-safe claim as something you must be able to support from the manufacturer rather than infer.

Record who told you what

Name, date, what you described and what they said. Guidance gets restated and staff change, and a specific conversation you can point at is a different position from a recollection.

References

16 CFR 1500.3, definitions under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, which reaches products sold to consumers. A hazardous substance includes a “strong sensitizer”, defined as “a substance which will cause on normal living tissue through an allergic or photodynamic process a hypersensitivity which becomes evident on reapplication of the same substance.” law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 1500, the labeling requirements that follow from that definition for a hazardous substance in a container intended for household use. law.cornell.edu
29 CFR 1910.1200, Hazard Communication. Paragraph (f) sets what a shipped container must carry: product identifier, signal word, hazard statements, pictograms, precautionary statements and the name, US address and US telephone number of the responsible party. Paragraph (g) requires a safety data sheet, in sixteen numbered sections. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation and published safety guidance, not from a laboratory. Epoxy sensitization is permanent and cumulative, and nothing here is a substitute for the safety data sheet for the specific product you are using or for a conversation with your state about what you may sell. Read the SDS for your resin, not a summary of somebody else’s.