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Policy mandateCognitive automation2025-12-12
Designated feeding facilities must employ a registered dietitian under article 21 of Japan's 健康増進法, while other facilities need only make efforts to
Dietitian / nutritionistoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2025-12-12
Evidence stage
Policy mandateRegulation, subsidy or public procurement is requiring or funding adoption — the mirror of a constraint. It shows adoption is being required, not that it has happened, so one mandate is never enough on its own; two independent ones are.
Tasks this bears on
Menu planning for institutions
Planning weeks of menus for a hospital, school or care home within nutrient and cost limits.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
Japan. Article 21(1) of the Health Promotion Act requires the operator of a specified feeding facility that a prefectural governor designates as needing special nutrition management to place a registered dietitian (管理栄養士) there; article 21(2) asks other specified feeding facilities only to make efforts to place a dietitian or registered dietitian. It names no technology; it requires a person in a role, not a way of planning menus.
What this means
Whatever software drafts the menus, Japanese law keeps a registered dietitian in the designated kitchens.
What it does not yet show
It covers designated facilities only, and says nothing about how many dietitians or what they do all day.
What you can check
Open 健康増進法 on e-Gov and find article 21(1) "管理栄養士を置かなければならない".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event, and this stage does not move one on its own: a "Policy mandate" record counts toward a judgement but needs a second, independent record before the judgement rests on evidence. This one is counted; on its own it changed nothing.
Source
e-Gov 法令検索 (Japan, Digital Agency) — 健康増進法 第二十一条 · verified 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-30 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.