Many vitamin companies are distantly owned by pharmaceutical companies. The FDA has a problem with unsubstantiated claims, and rightly so. Herbal remedies and natural products actually are the basis of about 60% of all prescribed drugs so big pharma knows they aren't all evil.
Proposed guidelines put forth by the agency for "New Dietary Ingredients" (NDIs) propose treating vitamins, herbs, and dietary supplements as synthetic food preservatives, which means pulling many of them off the market, and subjecting the rest to extreme regulatory protocols that will drive up costs and severely limit availability.
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