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In essence, the new law says that Californians must be warned in a ''clear and reasonable'' way if exposed to chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects. The chemicals can occur anywhere: not just in food, but in the workplace, in the home or at the gasoline station. No warning is required if it can be proved that ''no significant risk'' is presented by a carcinogen or that chemicals causing birth defects would show ''no observable effect'' at 1,000 times the level of exposure. The real question is, is the amount of arsenic in that food safe or not? If it's not safe it shouldn't be sold. If it is safe, it should be sold and you shouldn't scare a consumer by saying, ''Oh, by the way, there's a little bit of harmless arsenic.'' Mr. [Sherwin Gardner]: We're waiting to see how the ''naturally occurring'' rule will work in practice. People have been making cheese and cooking steak and other foods for centuries. You can't make bread without forming a little bit of alcohol. You can't make cheese without forming a little bit of acetaldehyde.

[Duncan Williamson]'s fireside tales are of keen interest to the folklorist and scholar. Transcribed from taped recordings, these narratives - told for generations by clans of itinerant Highlanders - weave rich textures of sound with unusual syntax, idiom and abrupt tense changes, creating a sense of intimacy rarely found on the printed page. These 12 stories, chosen from more than 3,000 in Mr. Williamson's repertoire, range from variations on familiar themes such as ''Beauty and the Beast'' to fresh adventure, enchantment, Jack (or hero), anthropomorphic and burker -body snatcher - tales. Edited by Linda Williamson, the narrator's American wife, ''so far as to be comprehensible to a wide English audience,'' each story is appended with brief notes as to source and circumstance as well as comments on translation, idiom and syntax.