The letter your suppliers need to sign.
What do I actually send my ingredient suppliers to sign?
Supplier-Declaration Generator
The whole template is below — no sign-up. Personalize it, copy it onto letterhead, collect signatures.
Supplier declaration — ingredient status
- From
- [supplier company]
- Re
- [ingredient / material]
- Claims covered
- Vegan
- Date
- [date]
We, [supplier company], supply [ingredient / material] to the requesting party and declare — to the best of our knowledge, based on our own records and our upstream suppliers' documentation — that for this material as supplied:
- it contains no animal-derived components, and no processing aids of animal origin are used in its manufacture;
We will notify the requesting party in writing before any change of formulation, sourcing or process that could affect the statements above.
This declaration reflects our records as of the date below and is signed by a person authorized to make it.
Signed: [name], [title] — [supplier company], [date]
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Declarations in the folder shorten every review that follows — and the application asks for the scope you just assembled.
Typical desk review: 5–10 business days from complete documentation.