company update: Canson | VeganArtStuff

After over two months waiting, I got a reply from Canson today.

Canson: although their papers do not contain animal derivatives with the exception of Mi Teintes and Ingres Vidalon, they do not now about the glue and packaging and several dyes get tested on rabbits.

So Canson is neither completely vegan nor is it cruelty-free.

The reply came from Lyra, so I guess it is the German distributor of Canson. And it is funny that the Canson response came via Lyra, but my inquiry to Lyra about their brand’s products was politely overlooked. But if Canson and Lyra are from the same company, Lyra is probably not vegan friendly as well.

Source: Mail contact

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Vegan friendly and cruelty-free criteria:
A product can be considered vegan, if the entire product itself does not contain animal ingredients, byproducts/ derivatives and none of those are used in the manufacturing process, e.g. the use of animal derived oils and fats in surfactants for the dispersion of pigments. The manufacturer does not test on animals or commissions other parties to do so, none of their parent and sister companies or any other partners test on animals or commission animal testing, none of their raw material suppliers and subsuppliers test on animals or commission animal testing, if there are other options. (According to the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, animal testing has to be avoided if it is possible and has the goal to minimize animal testing for REACH. Lastly, there is no animal testing abroad for the manufacturer’s products to be sold abroad.)
By “entire product”, all parts of the product are meant, e.g. the ink and its jar it is contained in, the body and nibs of a marker, a pencil’s wooden body as well as lacquer/ print on it.

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