Certain alcoholic drinks are processed using isinglass, which is an animal product.

At present no guidelines exist to require / recommend that labels of alcoholic drinks specify whether or not they use this reagent in production.

This petition aims to encourage the Portman Group - who are 'the responsibility body for drinks producers in the UK.', and whose members 'collectively account for more than half the UK alcohol market' - to mandate that alcoholic beverages produced by their members include on the label information as to whether they utilise isinglass.

According to the Vegan Society, there are now over half a million vegans in the UK, and many of them have a very difficult time identifying which alcohol is safe for them to drink, and which is not.