HUMAN FOOD LAWS.

Taiwan food scandals prompt new, stricter laws.

Food web laws or niche theory? Six independent empirical tests.

1. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2258; 2. Section of Integrative Biology C0930, School of Life Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1064; 3. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73072-7029; 4. School of Biological Sciences, University of N...

An Allergy to Goldfish? Highlighting Labeling Laws for Food Additives

To the Editor: Allergy to food additives is a well-documented phenomenon in the literature. Annatto is an orange food coloring that can be found in both a synthetic or a natural form.1 If natural, it is derived from the fruit of the Bixa orellana tropical bush.2 It is considered a carotenoid because of its chemical similarity to beta-carotene.3 This natural form is often used in the regional cu...

Ceteris Paribus Laws and the Human Sciences

In opposition to the traditional conception of scientific laws as universal and exceptionless generalizations that hold everywhere and throughout all times, some philosophers of science have proposed the idea of a ceteris paribus law (CP law), i.e., a law that is true " all else being equal " , in the sense that it can admit of exceptions because of the influence of interfering factors. The leg...

Universal laws of human society’s income distribution

General equilibrium equations in economics play the same role with many-body Newtonian equations in physics. Accordingly, each solution of the general equilibrium equations can be regarded as a possible microstate of the economic system. Since Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and Rawls’ principle of social fairness will provide a powerful support for the hypothesis of equal probability, then the p...