Vegan Vitamin and Food Supplements Certificate
For consumers who have embraced the vegan philosophy and dietary habits, it is not easy to seek out vitamins and supplements that are 100% free from animal products or animal-derived ingredients.
In addition, content reading and research can be very difficult for vegan consumers as the vitamin and supplement industry is less regulated than other industries.
For example, when a vitamin or food supplement product with vegan claims contains the following ingredients, it must share the source of these vitamins, minerals and other ingredients with the consumer. Because these components may be obtained from animal sources.
- Calcium: May contain bone meal
- Provitamin A and beta carotene: Can come from animal tissue
- Collagen: A protein from animal vertebrates, cysteine, and L-form can come from animal amino acids.
- Vitamin D: May come from animals and sheep fat
- Estrogen: Can be obtained from cow ovaries and pregnant mares urine
- Fatty acids (caprylic, myristic, oleic, palmitic, stearic, behenic): May be of animal origin.
- Fish oil: a common ingredient in vitamins from marine animals
- Gelatin: A protein obtained from the skin, tendons, ligaments and bones of cows, pigs, horses and other mammals.
- Glutamic acid: An amino acid often extracted from animals for use as an antioxidant.
- Glycerides / Glycerine: Used in animal fat and some supplements
- Lactose: milk-derived milk sugar from mammalian milk.
- Lethicin (Choline, Bitartrate): It is found in all living organisms and is commercially obtained from eggs, nerve tissue, blood and milk unless it is made from "soy".
- Linoleic Acid: Essential fatty acid derived from animals
- Lipase: Enzyme taken from stomach and tongue glands of baby cows and lambs
- Propolis: Resinous substance collected from bees
- Progesterone: Steroid hormone usually taken from animals.
- Steroids (Sterol): Various animal glands.
- Tyrosine: It is obtained from chicken feathers.
- Vitamin A: Usually derived from fish liver oil (eg shark liver oil), egg yolk or other animals.
- Vitamin B12: Usually an animal source
- Hyaluronic Acid: From cock combs
- Glucosamine: From shellfish
- Chondroitin: Sharks' cartilage
For a vegan consumer, it is extremely important that the sources of ingredients in vitamins or supplements are transparent and where they are obtained from.
The V-Mark vegan certification team of experts completes the due diligence, investigation, inspection and technical analysis required to ensure that the consumer trusts your brand and that your risk is managed and predicted before a false false claim or product recall obligation.
