Thank you for your email regarding Party Rings.
We can confirm that we do not use any animal derived ingredients to make any of the Party Iced products that state suitable for ‘Vegetarians’
The Party Footballs and the Party Fairytales are actually suitable for Vegetarians , however we cannot make this claim on the packs yet as they are being made on a line that used gelatine when it was being used in the Party products as a whole. The packaging will reflect its ‘Vegetarian’ status once the packaging has been used. The standard Party Rings will be gelatine free in the very near future but please be aware there will still be some product on the Supermarket shelves that were made before the change.
The Chocolate Rings do still contain some animal derived colourants.
These products are manufactured on the same production line which uses dairy ingredients and also we use brushes with animal bristles and our conveyor belts contain wool fibres.
We have passed your comments onto our marketing Team about making a ‘Vegan’ claim as well as a ‘Vegetarian’ one our packaging.
I hope that information is of help to you
With kind regards
Stephanie
On behalf of Consumer Care