Florida Statute 468.502 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 468
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

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468.502 Purpose and intent.—The Legislature finds that the practice of dietetics and nutrition or nutrition counseling by unskilled and incompetent practitioners presents a danger to the public health and safety. The Legislature further finds that it is difficult for the public to make informed choices about dietitians and nutritionists and that the consequences of wrong choices could seriously endanger the public health and safety. The sole legislative purpose in enacting this part is to ensure that every person who practices dietetics and nutrition or nutrition counseling in this state meets minimum requirements for safe practice. It is the legislative intent that any person practicing dietetics and nutrition or nutrition counseling who falls below minimum competency or who otherwise presents a danger to the public be prohibited from practicing in this state. It is also the intent of the Legislature that the practice of nutrition counseling be authorized and regulated solely within the limits expressly provided by this part and any rules adopted pursuant thereto.

History.—ss. 2, 20, ch. 88-236; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 2, ch. 96-367.

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Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Health (11th Cir. 2022).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...§ 468.503(10). In enacting this regulation, the Florida legislature specifically found that “the prac- tice of dietetics and nutrition or nutrition counseling by unskilled and incompetent practitioners presents a danger to the public health and safety.” Id. § 468.502 (emphasis added). Assessing a client’s nutrition needs, conducting nutrition re- search, developing a nutrition care system, and integrating infor- mation from a nutrition assessment are not speech....

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Florida Nutrition Counselors Ass'n v. Dep't of Bus. & Prof'l Reg., Bd. of Med., Dietetics & Nutrition Practice Council, 667 So. 2d 218 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 8482, 1995 WL 469647

...FNCA contends that all of the controverted rule amendments unlawfully enlarge, modify and contravene 2 the controlling statutory authority, including the Dietetics and Nutrition Practice Act (Ch. 88-236, Laws of Florida), Ch. 468, Part X, Florida Statutes, and related provisions. 3 Section 468.502 declares the “sole legislative purpose ......