Modalités de l’offre alimentaire (hors restauration scolaire) dans les collèges et lycées d’aquitaine: Évolution entre 2004 et 2005 en application de la loi de santé publique du 9 août 2004

Within the framework of the French National Programme on Nutrition and Health, a survey was conducted in middle and high schools of the French Aquitaine region with the aim of describing the food supply within middle and high schools in 2004-2005, before and after the application of regulation of snack machins in September 2005 of the recent French law of public health.The results show that:

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20 % of schools offered free snacks, specially bread (67 %) and fruit (39,3 %).

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63 % of the answering schools had food or drink sales, concerning pastries (74,6 %), chocolate bars (30 %) and soft drinks (25,4 %).

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In 2004-2005, 44 % of the high schools had snack machins. In Septembre 2005, each school (99 %) had removed on snack machines.

These results highlight the importance of the actions implemented in the programme of “Nutrition, prevention and health of children and teenagers in Aquitaine”, especially actions focussing on food supply within schools.