These items are labeled vegan in the U of I dining halls - they shouldn't be. They provide the most reliable means of matching an entry on this list to an item on the food line. Those ingredients without an asterisk are sometimes animal derived, sometimes not. In most cases, we are waiting for the manufacturers, who have been contacted, to reply to our questions about the origins of these ingredients.
Honey is, and always has been, labeled lacto-vegetarian.
For those concerned about bleached sugar, a food technician here at the University assures us that boneblack is no longer used in the refinement of sugar. Part of the problem is that there isn't a good label for them - generally, these foods don't contain milk or eggs or meat, per se. As for the rest of the problem. If you'd like to hear the rest of the story, drop me a line .