{
  "id": 11617425,
  "title": "Officials defend new rules requiring healthier school snacks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/officials-defend-new-rules-requiring-healthier-school-snacks",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-03T05:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ERR News Estonia",
    "slug": "err-news-estonia",
    "url": "https://news.err.ee/1610154712/officials-defend-new-rules-requiring-healthier-school-snacks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If schools restrict snack bar offerings but children start buying snacks from nearby shops instead, their diet will not become healthier, school caterers say. The Ministry of Social Affairs, however, believes there is no reason to assume that all students will rush to shops instead of the school snack bar because of the new requirements.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}