The worlds first automotive interior certified by “The Vegan Society” is now available on the new all electric Mercedes-Benz GLC by ordering it with their trademarked “Vegan Package”.

The package means the whole of the interior from ARTICO vegan “leather” seats, door trim, steering wheel and everything in between have all been through “The Vegan Society’s” testing and examination process to gain their coveted certification by their trademark team as is explained here on their site.

Their process thoroughly checks to ensure that nothing contains animal based by-products or ingredients that often unknowingly end up in items like glues. The trademark team even goes so far as to make certain nothing used has been tested on animals either by the company or even indirectly on the companies request.

“With this joint project between The Vegan Society and Mercedes-Benz, we have reached a new milestone; it is the first time that a car interior has been third-party certified and approved by the Vegan Trademark.” noted Gabriela Chalkia-Jackson The Vegan Society’s Client Relations Manager.

She continued:

“We are thrilled that Mercedes-Benz chose to partner with us on this journey and we have certainly learnt a lot from the two year project.”

Their Vegan Trademark standards are one of the leading certification processes around the world for vegan products and that process had them testing around 100 different items from a myriad of Mercedes-Benz suppliers to meet their stringent certification standards.

Mercedes-Benz themselves reflected its commitment to the importance to the high standards in both this certification and their new Vegan Package being offered with Markus Schafer, Chief Technology officer saying:

“At Mercedes-Benz we don’t take shortcuts, instead we go the extra mile.”

“The certification of our vegan interior by “The Vegan Society” underlines this approach. Transparency and trust are very important to us. Our customers can rest assured that our vegan interior materials do not contain any animal products and meet very high testing standards.

We are delighted to be able to offer them this assurance through our partnership with an independent and globally recognized certification organization.”

The society’s sunflower logo will be featured when designing a car on the Merceds-Benz website and the plan is to roll out this interior option for all of their vehicles.