V-CERT
Working paper · No. 05

The letter your suppliers need to sign.

What do I actually send my ingredient suppliers to sign?

Working paper · No. 05

Supplier-Declaration Generator

The whole template is below — no sign-up. Personalize it, copy it onto letterhead, collect signatures.

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Claims covered

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]

Template by V-Cert (v-cert.org). A certification desk review verifies declarations like this one against the published standard.
Ask the supplier to place it on their letterhead and sign — one letter per ingredient.
Declarations in hand mean a review with no pauses.Get my quote

A tool can check a list; the certification decision is made by a human reviewer against everything the mark requires.

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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.