Brussels, 21/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is planning to set up a programme to distribute fruit and vegetables in schools to help combat the increasingly worrying problem of childhood obesity in EU countries, Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel announced in Mainz (Germany) on Sunday 20 May. The programme will be similar to the one which already exists in the milk and dairy products sector.
On the sidelines of the informal Agriculture Council, which took place...