False dieticians: “What will the canton do?”

Lara Filippini urges the State Council to carry out checks on the way nutritionists and dieticians operate

BELLINZONA – In a question to the Council of State Lara Filippini asks to justify the presence in Ticino of false health food professionals, “in stark contrast to the certified ones” and what is intended to be done “to carry out preventive checks in the field of health” .

«By law – underlines the deputy UDC – recognized dieticians and nutritionists must first have carried out a period of training in hospital, providing all the necessary documentation to receive the certificate of free exercise of the profession by the Canton and then operate privately. However, there are nutritionists who, even without any certificates, promote their web pages to more easily attract people willing to do anything to lose weight, ”she adds.

It is precisely the ease of opening a business that worries Filippini: “Not having to undergo any verification of educational qualifications, having no type of control by the Canton and no code of ethics like the professionals in the sector, it is almost taken for granted that people with food of various kinds, end up in the hands of alleged professionals “.