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State Action Click Here to Take Action Wisconsin LRB 0253/1 attempts to create licensing of Dietitian/Nutritionists and would create an occupational monopoly on nutrition information looping all of nutrition into the domain of dietetics by its exclusive language providing a privilege to one special interest dietitian group for all nutrition related practices and services. It mandates licensure for all those who fall within the broadly defined terms: “dietetic nutrition care services”, “dietetic nutrition therapy” and “the nutrition care process”. These terms are extremely and overly broad and include the activities of regular citizens, nutritionists, and complementary and alternative health care practitioners that currently have successful businesses in the state of Wisconsin and that would be banned from practicing if this bill should pass. Wisconsin LRB 0253/1 fails to provide proper and necessary exemptions for regular and citizens and unlicensed health practitioners from licensing requirements and is architecturally and legally flawed. Rather than providing proper exemptions acknowledging the fundamental right to practice nutrition care services, the bill attempts to have the dietitians dole out a privilege to practice including setting behavior parameters for regular citizens and unregulated practitioners. Not only do they demand practice prohibitions, but they directly and offensively attempt to define what types of speech citizens may use regarding nutrition, and taking it upon themselves to define what non-medical speech is that they think regular citizens can use. This even goes beyond the federal governments parameters of product speech and even adds more narrow language regarding practitioners practicing under their religious tenants. There is no authority or basis for these broad restrictions. Nutrition and food are substances that our country has always regarded as “generally regarded as safe” and consumers have access to these products freely, and the government has the burden of showing harm before they restrict access to foods and nutrients, including dietary supplements. Federal product law protects our access to these substances and information about them Take Action Here to stop Wisconsin Dietitians from
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