UPDATE – Newly added amendment language would give a Dietetics board (majority RD’s) the power to turn complaints/individuals over to the attorney general for investigation.
This new language creates the mechanism for the Dietetics board to harass and undermine unlicensed practitioners as they have been doing in other states.
In the absence of any significant, or vetted, documentation of harm to the public from non-RD practitioners, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has adopted strategy of filing complaints to convince legislators of the need for exclusionary laws. This new language creates the mechanism for the Dietetics board to harass and undermine unlicensed practitioners as they have been doing in other states
Contact your elected representatives in Indiana TODAY and let them know that the Dietetic Association—which is funded by the junk food industry—will not monopolize the nutrition profession in Indiana!