Companies can list things as being fat-free, sugar-free, transfat-free, etc. when they aren't ONLY because the federal government has legislated those terms to mean things other than their common sense definitions. Without protection by legislation, calling something with .5g of trans fat "trans fat free" would be fraud, and punishable by law. It's quite funny how the government constantly makes claims about protecting us by requiring honesty and clarity from advertising, while it specifically permits companies to lie.
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