If you’ve bought herbal supplements in a store recently, the St. John’s Wort you think you were buying may have been Jon’s Wart instead. This involves GNC, Target, Wal-Mart and Walgreens but I’ll bet it’s going to lead to a lot more. There are a lot of sketchy companies packing herbal supplements and without FDA regulation it’s let the buyer beware. I don’t buy many but the ones I buy are from Amazon and are tested and have to be highly rated or I won’t order them. Really makes you wonder how well some of these major companies are testing the products they sell.
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