Professional practice guides
Data protection, clinical records, and professional obligations, explained country by country in plain language.
How long must you keep clinical records? Retention periods by country
Minimum clinical record retention periods in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, with the governing regulation for each and what it means for a nutrition practice.
10 min readProfessional secrecy for nutritionists: scope, limits, and hard cases
What professional secrecy covers in nutrition practice, when it can or must be broken, how it relates to data protection, and how to handle the cases that raise the most doubts.
9 min readGDPR for nutritionists: a 10-step compliance self-audit
A practical checklist for reviewing GDPR compliance in a nutrition practice in Spain: what document to produce at each step, in what order, and how to know it is right.
9 min readData protection for nutritionists in Spain: a practical guide
What the GDPR and the LOPDGDD require from a nutrition practice in Spain: lawful basis, health data, minimum safeguards, processors, and what to do after a breach.
11 min readData protection for nutritionists in Mexico: what changed in 2025
Mexico’s new Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties repealed the 2010 law and replaced INAI. What it means for a nutrition practice.
10 min readData protection for nutritionists in Colombia: Law 1581
What Law 1581 of 2012 requires from a nutrition practice in Colombia: prior authorisation for sensitive data, the information treatment policy, the RNBD, and who actually has to register.
10 min readLaw 21.719: what changes for nutritionists in Chile on 1 December 2026
Chile’s new data protection law takes full effect on 1 December 2026 and creates a Data Protection Agency. What a nutrition practice needs ready before then.
11 min readData protection for nutritionists in Argentina: Law 25.326
What Law 25.326 requires from a nutrition practice in Argentina: article 8 for health professionals, registering databases with the AAIP, and the safeguards expected.
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