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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

I am genuinely surprised that the dollopy stuff you mention are
agar-based. I thought agar was much more expensive than gelatine. It
is also a laxative.

BSE put paid to animal-based gelatine in foods, surely?
Next time you're passing the little-pots-of-glop-desserts in the
supermarket, take look at the ingredients-list :-(

Janet