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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent

One in three UK vegan products found to contain milk or egg

A woman examines an item in a supermarket
Recent polling has discovered the widespread belief that something marketed as vegan is free from animal-derived ingredients. Photograph: Eldar Nurkovic/Alamy

More than a third of foods labelled vegan contained animal products, research has found, prompting experts to warn shoppers with severe allergies they face potentially “tragic consequences”.

Forensic scientists found traces of egg or milk in an array of goods that were labelled as vegan or plant-based, with trading standards bosses calling for legal protection to stop consumers being “exploited by unethical food businesses”.

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