July 2008

Latest approved product/service
www.vegsocapproved.com

Anyone looking for genuinely vegetarian products should look no further than www.vegsocapproved.com. Whether you are looking for gourmet goodies, convenience foods, cosy guest houses or approved caterers you can be sure that it meets the gold standard of vegetarian suitability through The Vegetarian Society’s strict criteria.

Here are the latest products approved by The Vegetarian Society.

Food products

Non – Food

Vegetarian Society approval offers consumers an easily identified standard of vegetarian labelling, allowing them to recognise the difference between minimum vegetarian standards and the higher criteria associated with The Vegetarian Society approval.

The Vegetarian Society ‘Seedling Symbol’ ensures a product or meal: Is free from meat, fowl, fish or shellfish, and ingredients resulting from slaughter, is GMO free and is free from cross contamination with non vegetarian ingredients during the production process. Plus any eggs used in a product must be free range.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

· Vegetarian Society Approved products are licensed to use the Society’s ‘seedling’ logo, indicating that they meet strict criteria for vegetarian suitability. The logo does not indicate a partnership of any kind between the Society and the manufacturers or retailers of approved products.

· The websites listed may contain other products which are not Vegetarian Society approved. The Vegetarian Society does not accept responsibility for medical/health claims made by producers in relation to approved products.

· For a definitive list of Vegetarian Society approved products visit www.vegsocapproved.com

· For more information please contact Su in the Press Office on 0161 925 2012 or email su@vegsoc.org . Outside office hours The Vegetarian Society Press Office can be contacted on 07973 108 165/ 7.

· The Vegetarian Society Seedling Symbol was first registered as an official trademark in 1969 and is the only vegetarian symbol which is legally governed by a trademark licence agreement.