Sweet Success for National Vegetarian Week 18-24 May

 

Haribo have become the latest company to have products approved by the Vegetarian Society and just in time for National Vegetarian Week 2009.

Haribo products (Forest Tree Range) which will carry the Vegetarian Society approved logo include Mega Sour, Cola Breeze, Sour Delicious, Gummy Bears, Wummis, Zoo, Tropical Fruits and Sour Tongues.

Vanessa Brown Corporate Relations Manager at the Vegetarian Society said, “It’s great that Haribo have created a selection of gelatine free sweets. Now veggies can enjoy the famous sweet, sour, and fruity tastes again and be reassured that packs carrying the Vegetarian Society Approved logo are completely vegetarian.”

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 Vegetarian Society approval.

The ‘Vegetarian Society Approved’ 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. In addition, any eggs used in a product must be free range.

National Vegetarian Week 2009 18-24 May 2009 is sponsored by Cauldron Foods.

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.

· 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. As well as appearing on over 5000 product lines, the Vegetarian Society’s seedling symbol trademark is also displayed on restaurant, hotel and café menus and on displays in mobile catering units and university and college eateries all over the UK, all as members of the Society’s highly influential Food & Drink Guild scheme.