An audience of two

Friday November 10, 2006

My code is bug free

Have you seen this? says Alison, handing me a tub of I can't believe it's not butter. My parents are staying with us, and they are watching their cholesterol intake. I look at the tub and see the NO TRANS FAT logo. Check the ingredients she says. So I do. And the second and third ingredients listed are partially hydrogenated this and hydrogenated that.

It turns out that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lets food manufacturers claim zero grams of trans fat as long as the product has less than half a gram per serving. That's less than 0.5g per 14g serving. So in effect something can make up almost 4% of the product and the manufacturers can say that it doesn't contain any at all.

By that standard, my code is, and always has been, bug free.