California Cites Jean Dodds for Practicing Without License-Again
Ms. Dodds has never held a license to practice veterinary medicine in any U.S. state, TCR has independently verified.

California has dinged Jean Dodds again for practicing veterinary medicine without a license.

It’s been five years since the California Veterinary Medical Board issued a “cease and desist” enforcement action to Jean Dodds – who holds a degree but has never been licensed to practice veterinary medicine in any state, as TCR was first to report.

We’ve been reporting closely on the state of California’s follow-up with Ms. Dodds – or lack thereof – as she has continued to sell products and offer up her services as “Dr. Dodds” from the Hemopet website:

“Our saliva-based food intolerance test takes the guesswork out of improving the quality of life for your precious pet,” Hemopet’s website promises. “Hemopet’s real science results in real data to help you better understand and sustain the wellbeing of your whole pet.” Scientists, including the mainstream veterinary medical establishment, disagree.

Veterinarian Brennen McKenzie, who blogs about the intersection of industry and science among other topics, recently wrote of Dodds:

“Jean Dodds has consistently refused to accept the scientific reality that much of what she advocates is unproven or worthless, such as her Nutriscan allergy testing. She also repeatedly refuses to accept that the government has an authority over what she does as a vet. Despite not having a license to practice veterinary medicine, she offers diagnostic and treatment advice based on the Nutriscan test, and as a result she was cited by the California Veterinary Medical Board for unlicensed practice in 2021. She has continued to do so anyway, and last month she was again cited for unlicensed practice.  The arrogance of not only inventing and selling pseudoscientific tests and treatments but of ignoring the fact that doing so is clearly illegal is really quite stunning.”

More to come.