New measures to strengthen and boost funding for a European Union (EU) scheme to provide fruit, vegetables and milk products insolaray magnesium citrat schools were backed by the agriculture committee this week.###They put more emphasis on educating children in healthy eating, increase the budget and merge into one the current separate schemes for milk and fruit in schools.###“A healthy, balanced diet is the foundation of good health but the consumption of fruit, vegetables and milk has been declining across the EU,” said Marc Tarabella (S&D, BE), who steered the legislation through Parliament and led the EP’s negotiating team. ###“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 program by preventing member states from unilaterally cutting its budget or changing the criteria for allocating EU funds among themselves.” ###The parliament won an additional €20 million (US$21.74 million) a year for milk measures. ###This bringsnature made magnesium citrate 250mg the annual funding for milk and milk products up to €100 million, with €150 million for fruit and vegetables.###Members of the European Parliament also insisted on a fairer distribution of EU funds between member states by setting two core criteria for the entire scheme (tmagnesium citrate 210mghe share of six to 10-year-old children in the population and the degree of development of thecitracal calcium citrate magnesium & minerals region within the member state). ###Past levels of milk-scheme fucalcium citrate magnesium and vitamin d3nds will be taken into account and possibly reviewed after the first six years of the new scheme and will be topped up with a new, minimum annual amount of EU aid per child.