Vegan Verification

Test and verify vegan materials

In recent years, consumers have become more aware of factors such as sustainable materials, manufacturing environmental impacts and the product safety of the goods they purchase and as such the ‘organic’ and ‘ethical’ childcare and hardgoods markets are booming.

However, have you ever wondered if toys or furniture can also be claimed as VEGAN, and what would be required to tap into the fast-growing vegan consumer market?

Vegan Verification is an innovative programme from Eurofins | Chem-MAP^® which risk assesses the materials and components used in your toy and hardgoods products, as well as providing testing of chemicals and materials, to establish whether any animal or by-products have been used.

Vegan Verification can help toy, childcare and hardgoods manufacturers, brands and retailers tap into the fast-growing vegan consumer market and correctly specify materials using a phased approach, covering the manufacture of materials, chemical management, risk assessment, and testing to achieve vegan certification of materials.

The Vegan Verification has been registered with The Vegan Society’s Vegan Trademark, and will be awarded to those companies who successfully meet verification criteria for all product components.

Testing and Verification Systems

Eurofins | Chem-MAP® Vegan Verification helps manufacturers, brands and retailers to test, verify and certify vegan chemicals, materials and products.

The Vegan Verification programme provides the opportunity to build vegan chemical management systems.

We offer the following services:

• Strategy Support and Policy Creation.
• Bill of Materials (BOM), Chemical Inventory Log (CIL) Creation, & Review.
• Risk Assessment of BOM & CIL and Onsite Audit.
• Animal DNA Analysis.
• Microscopy for Animal Fibres & FTIR Testing For the Presence of Animal Proteins.
• Declarations of Conformity & Referrals to the Vegan Society.

Approved and listed with BeVeg

The Eurofins | Chem-MAP testing programme is approved and listed with US-based company BeVeg, as a robust way of verifying products, materials and chemicals as vegan.

BeVeg is the world’s only ISO accredited vegan technical standard, trademark and program, which makes it the most reliable vegan trademark claim on the global marketplace. BeVeg brings uniform applicability and well-defined standards that meet consumer expectations when reviewing a vegan label. BeVeg is an ISO/IEC 17065 accredited certification standard built in accordance with ISO/IEC 17067 as a conformity assessment programme and accredited by the National Accreditation Centre (NAC).

Benefits of Vegan Verification

• Assurance that any chemistry used in the production of products/materials have not been derived from animal origin
• Independent third party verification and certification process supported by DNA testing
• Development of chemical management systems for vegan materials which goes beyond the absence of animal-derived material such as leather, feathers and fur
• Support for brands and retailers to endorse products as ‘animal-free’ and ‘vegan friendly’
• Training and awareness for manufacturers, brands and retailers
• Use of the Vegan Verification Mark and The Vegan Society Trademark

Contact us for more information.