Sec. 20-206m. Definitions.
Sec. 20-206m. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 20-206n to 20-206t, inclusive:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Health.
(3) "Nutrition assessment" means the evaluation of the nutrition needs of individuals and groups based upon appropriate biochemical, physical, and dietary data to determine nutrient needs and recommend appropriate nutrition intake including enteral and
parental nutrition.
(4) "Nutrition counseling" means advising and assisting individuals or groups on
appropriate nutrition intake by integrating information from the nutrition assessment.
(5) "Dietetics or nutrition practice" means the integration and application of the
principles derived from the sciences of nutrition, biochemistry, food, physiology, and
behavioral and social sciences to provide nutrition services that include: (A) Nutrition
assessment; (B) the establishment of priorities, goals, and objectives that meet nutrition
needs; (C) the provision of nutrition counseling in health and disease; (D) the development, implementation and management of nutrition care plans; and (E) the evaluation
and maintenance of appropriate standards of quality in food and nutrition. The term
"dietetics or nutrition practice" does not include the administration of nutrition by any
route other than oral administration and does not include the issuance of orders for
laboratory or other diagnostic tests or orders intended to be implemented by any person
licensed pursuant to chapter 378.
(P.A. 94-210, S. 12; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.