EU law to promote milk in schools

A draft new law which was provisionally agreed to by EU ministers in December 2015 was approved by Parliament on Tuesday. The new law will put more emphasis on educating children in healthy eating, increasing the budget and merging the current separate schemes for milk and fruit in schools into one. “A healthy, balanced diet is the foundation of good health but the consumption of fruit, vegetables and milk has been declining across the EU. This is why it is of the utmost importance to strengthen the school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme by increasing its budget and making it more focused on healthy-eating education. Parliament also ensured the financial stability of the programme by preventing member states from unilaterally cutting its budget or changing the criteria for allocating EU funds among themselves”, said Marc Tarabella, who steered the legislation through the EU Parliament. To read more, click HERE.