How to Verify a Vegan or Gluten-Free Certificate

To verify a certificate: get the certificate number, identify the issuing body, and check that number with the issuing body itself — never against the supplier's PDF alone. Where the certifier offers QR or online verification, use it; where it offers neither, email the certifier directly. For a V-Cert certificate, enter the number at v-cert.org/verify/ or scan the QR code printed on it — either route opens that certificate on V-Cert's certificate portal, no account and no email required.