The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actively conspiring with Big Pharma to restrict consumer access to dietary supplements.

Under the guise of protecting the public against "dangerous" vitamins, the FDA wants to create a "mandatory product listing and registration" scheme for dietary supplements that would require them all to be tracked and traced in order to remain on the market.

A House Appropriations Committee report includes funding provisions for the FDA that include language about creating "regulations requiring mandatory product listing and registration to create transparency in the supply chain" for dietary supplements.

"This language isn't enough to give the FDA the power to create a mandatory list; Congress would need to pass legislation giving the FDA this power," warns the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA).

"What is concerning, though, is that this issue is on Congress's radar, so we may see such proposals in the not-too-distant future. We also know that the authority to create a mandatory list of supplements is something that the FDA has asked for a number of times."

The revelation comes at the same time that the mainstream media has been reporting about "bad actors" in the dietary supplement industry who are supposedly using illegal ingredients in weight loss, sexual enhancement, and bodybuilding supplements."