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Plant Based / Vegan Compliance
Navigate the unique Plant Based / Vegan Compliance product labelling landscape with confidence.
What is Plant Based / Vegan Compliance?
Navigating plant-based and vegan compliance means ensuring every product truthfully adheres to strict standards for composition, sourcing, and labelling. These complex requirements are in place to build consumer confidence, governing everything from verifying the absence of animal-derived ingredients and processing aids to managing cross-contamination risks. Moreover, compliance demands clear and unambiguous labelling to prevent misleading marketing and empower shoppers to make confident choices. At Ashbury, we tackle these challenges for you, leaving you to focus on other aspects of your business.
Our Plant Based / Vegan Compliance Services
Formulation & Composition Review
Ensure your product formulation meets the strict standards and claims criteria for 'plant-based' or 'vegan' status in the EU and GB. Our experts review your formulation, raw material specifications, and production processes against legal criteria and certification standards. This includes verifying the absence of all animal-derived ingredients, processing aids, and additives, and assessing cross-contamination risks, to ensure your products are fully compliant from concept to shelf.
Artwork & Label Compliance
Ensure your product formulation meets the strict standards and claims criteria for 'plant-based' or 'vegan' status in the EU and GB. Our experts review your formulation, raw material specifications, and production processes against legal criteria and certification standards. This includes verifying the absence of all animal-derived ingredients, processing aids, and additives, and assessing cross-contamination risks, to ensure your products are fully compliant from concept to shelf.
Regulatory Adaptation & Translation
Ready to launch your brand internationally? Navigating the complex global regulations and certification standards for plant-based claims—from varying legal definitions of 'vegan' and different logo requirements to local rules on 'free-from' claims and labelling differences—is a significant challenge. Ashbury streamlines your expansion by adapting your labelling, claims, and formulations to meet the specific requirements of target markets, from the EU and GB to North America and beyond.
Bespoke Compliance Training
Empower your NPD, technical, and marketing teams with bespoke compliance training. We equip your internal stakeholders with the knowledge to navigate the complex regulations for plant-based and vegan products, including rules on claims substantiation, allergen management, cross-contamination controls, and supply chain integrity. Our training, available as e-learning, webinars, or in-person sessions, is tailored to your organisation’s needs.
Why Choose Ashbury For Plant Based/Vegan Compliance?
At Ashbury, we provide a tailored approach to your plant based/vegan product labelling needs. Our services are customisable and client-centric, designed to fit the fast-paced nature of the plant based/vegan industry.
Our extensive experience and strong track record are a testament to our commitment and expertise. With Ashbury, you're not just choosing a service provider but a trusted partner for your compliance journey. Get in touch today with your enquiries.
Flexible Outsourcing:
Reliable support to meet your business needs and alleviate compliance bottlenecks.
Genuine Expertise:
Practical guidance you can trust, powered by a breadth and depth of expertise.
Centralised Service Delivery:
A simple approach to global labelling compliance, delivered from one point of contact.
Measurable Partnership:
We build strong partnerships
and ensure you have visibility of
the value we add through robust governance.
Streamlined Success:
Optimised processes to reduce admin so your team and your businesses can focus on what they do best: delivering quality products to consumers.
Learn more about our process, pricing and timelines in a free initial discovery call:
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