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There will be different measures for Primary and Secondary schools...they are taking out the sweets in the vending machines...
The Ministry for Health is to remove food and sweet vending machines from primary schools and will also ban the sale of drinks containing caffeine.
A list is being drawn up of foods which will be allowed to be sold in secondary schools, which have low fat, sugar and salt content, in the measure which comes against a backdrop of increasing child obesity in Spain.
Currently 17% of primary and 60% of secondary schools in Spain have such vending machines.
Minister for Health, Trinidad Jiménez, said it was not about banning anything, but rather not facilitating their consumption. She said the measure would not affect items which are not pre-packed – such as the typical bocadillo.
The law will be administered by the regions who all agreed it at a meeting of the Inter-territorial Council of the National Health Service.
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