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AGFOCERT, a global certification body headquartered in Turkey — considered one of the biggest certification bodies in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe — officially partners with BeVeg, to represent the BeVeg vegan standard certification program.
BeVeg International is the world’s leading vegan certification program. To date, BeVeg boasts the only ISO 17065 accredited vegan specific standard in the world. The BeVeg vegan certification mark is a global trademark recognized on six continents.
AGFO is a one-stop shop certification body for industry expected audits for prestigious food safety program audits like GLOBALGAP, BRC, IFS, and BEVEG.
AGFO, which stands for Assured Goals and Featured Operations, as well as Agriculture and Food Organization, was the first certification body to offer GLOBALGAP Aquaculture, ASC Farm and MSC CoC accreditations in Turkey. AGFO auditors are skilled and trained on robust auditing programs by ISO, BRC, IFS and now BEVEG vegan certifications as approved by the National Accreditation Center (NAC). NAC accredited the BeVeg vegan standard to ISO 17065 and ISO 17067, and adopted the published standard as a “conformity assessment program” that certification bodies can apply to for accreditation. BeVeg International is managed by a law firm, the Law Offices of Carissa Kranz.
“Through vegan certification, companies prove that the consumer-end product did not exploit animals and does not contain ingredients of animal origin through a series of inspections, document disclosures, factory audits, and lab analysis,” says Carissa Kranz, attorney founder and CEO of BeVeg. “The BeVeg vegan standard holds the supply chain accountable to unprecedented vegan integrity.” Attorney Kranz is a former prosecutor, national television legal expert, and a vegan from birth.