-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, LoYmPxKDky7Mqb8mtz4ZkqKXzBsQUMWOIP8V/xgDzr91q7zpMnBrqqRTqKT1WhzL CnTuV2n//UtqqIhiZ/zLKw== 0001144204-08-068441.txt : 20090202 0001144204-08-068441.hdr.sgml : 20090202 20081209132002 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-08-068441 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20081209 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: QUANTRX BIOMEDICAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000820608 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841] IRS NUMBER: 330202574 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NV FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 SOUTH MAIN STREET STREET 2: SUITE 300 CITY: DOYLESTOWN STATE: PA ZIP: 18901 BUSINESS PHONE: 267-880-1595 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 SOUTH MAIN STREET STREET 2: SUITE 300 CITY: DOYLESTOWN STATE: PA ZIP: 18901 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: AFEM MEDICAL CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19970722 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: XTRAMEDICS INC /NV/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

Michael D. Helsel
212-801-6962
212-805-9284
helselm@gtlaw.com
 
December 9, 2008
 
VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION
AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY
 
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C.  20549
 
Attention:
Ms. Lynn Dicker

Re: 
QuantRx Biomedical Corporation
Form 10-KSB for year ended December 31, 2007
Filed March 31, 2008
Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2008
File No. 0-17119

Dear Ms. Dicker:
 
We are acting as legal counsel to QuantRx Biomedical Corporation, a Nevada corporation (“QuantRx” or the “Company”).  We have been authorized by QuantRx to provide you with responses to the comments received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) by letter dated November 20, 2008 (the “Comment Letter”), with respect to QuantRx’ Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2007 (the “2007 Annual Report”) and QuantRx’ Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.  For the Staff’s convenience, the Staff’s comments have been restated below in bold type (the numbers thereof corresponding to the numbers of the Staff’s comments contained in the Comment Letter) and QuantRx’ responses have been set forth below in italics.  Three courtesy copies of this letter are enclosed herewith.
 
Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2007
 
Item 8A. Controls and Procedures, page 26
 
Disclosure Controls and Procedures, page 26
 
1.             
We note your disclosure that “the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms.”  Revise future filings, including any amendments, to clarify, if true, that your officers concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that you file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to your management, including your chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.  See Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e).
 

 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and will amend appropriate periodic filings as follows pending resolution of the issues raised in the Comment Letter.:

“Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has evaluated, under the supervision and with the participation of management, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of its disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in such rules) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC’s rules and forms.  Additionally, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are also effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that are filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Our management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake.

Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.”

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Financial statements
 
Note 3: Consolidation of FluoroPharma, Inc., page F-15
 
2.             
We note from your disclosure here and in Note 5 that $508,822 of the $1,250,000 assessed for the purchase of 627,058 shares of common stock of FluoroPharma represented the cancellation in full of two promissory notes with accrued and unpaid interest.  However, it appears from the statement of cash flows that this amount was included in the total reflected as cash flows used by investing activites (i.e., $1,536,000).  Pursuant to guidance in paragraph 32, of SFAS 95, in future filings please record only cash amounts paid (or received) in this section of the statement of cash flows and present other forms of payment (or refunding) as non-cash supplemental disclosures of investing activities.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and, accordingly, will revise future filings prospectively beginning with QuantRx’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 (the “2008 Annual Report”).

Note 9. Convertible Debt, page F-19
 
3.               
We note from your disclosure on page F-20 that you modified certain terms of previously issued warrants.  Please revise your notes in future filings to clearly disclose how you originally accounted for the warrants and accounted for the modifications made to the terms of the warrants.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and, accordingly, will revise future filings prospectively beginning with the 2008 Annual Report.

Note 13, Stock Purchase Warrants, page F-25
 
4.             
For all warrant issuances and modifications, please revise future filings to disclose how you determined the assumptions utilized within the Black-Scholes option pricing model for each reporting period presented.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and, accordingly, will revise future filings prospectively beginning with the 2008 Annual Report.

Note 14, Common Stock Options, page F-29
 
5.             
In future filings please revise to provide all the disclosures required by paragraph A240 of SFAS 123(R) and SAB Topic 14.D.1.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and, accordingly, will revise future filings prospectively beginning with the December 31, 2008 10-K.

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Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2
 
6.             
We note that the certifications filed as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to your Form 10-KSB did not include the language regarding internal control over financial reporting in the introduction to paragraph 4 and in paragraph 4(b) of Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B.  Please note the guidance in SEC Release 33-8618, which states that the omitted language in the introduction to the fourth paragraph and in paragraph 4(b) must be provided in the first annual report required to contain management’s internal control report and in all periodic reports filed thereafter.  In this regard, the language in paragraph 6 does not comply with the guidance.  We further note from your March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008 and September 30, 2008 Forms 10-Q that the certifications did not include the language regarding internal control over financial reporting in the introduction to paragraph 4 and that the March 31, 2008 certification did not include the language of paragraph 4(b) of Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K.  Accordingly, please file amendments to your December 31, 2007 Form 10-KSB and March 31, 2008, June 30, 2008, and September 30, 2008 Forms 10-Q to revise these certification in the form currently set forth in Items 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B and Regulation S-K.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and will revise future filings accordingly. We have attached hereto as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 forms of the replacement certifications and will amend the appropriate periodic filings accordingly pending resolution of the issues raised in the Comment Letter.

7.             
We note that your certifications filed in your Form 10-KSB filed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) are not in the exact form prescribed by Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B.  Specifically, we note throughout the certification that you refer to the “registrant” rather than the “small business issuer.” Please revise your certification in future filings, including any amendments, to conform to the exact wording required by Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-B.
 
QuantRx appreciates the Staff’s comments and will revise future filings accordingly. We have attached hereto as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 forms of the replacement certifications and will amend the appropriate periodic filings accordingly pending resolution of the issues raised in the Comment Letter.

Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2008
 
8.             
We note that in the first quarter of 2008, the 2007 Notes issued on October 16, 2007 were exchanged for 2008 Notes.  We further note that you determined that the terms of the 2008 Notes are “substantially different” from those of the 2007 Notes pursuant to EITF 96-19.  As a result, a loss on extinguishment of $439,445 was recorded.  Based on the aggregate principal balance of $1,157,247 issued in notes to the former holders upon their surrender of the 2007 Notes, tell us how the amount of the loss was determined.
 
 
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In accordance with EITF 96-19, “Debtor’s Accounting for a Modification or Exchange of Debt Instruments,” after determining that the notes were substantially different, the new debt instrument was recorded at its fair value, $1,157,247, and that amount was used to determine the debt extinguishment loss.  The loss on extinguishment of $439,445 is the aggregate of the remaining unamortized debt discount ($189,101) and deferred finance costs ($99,399) related to the extinguished note as of the time of the debt exchange, along with $150,945 of additional principal resulting from a most favored nation provision in the original debt agreement.



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Should any member of the Staff have any questions or comments concerning this letter, or desire any further information or clarification in respect of the responses contained in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at the number indicated on the first page of this letter.
 

 
Very Truly Yours,

/s/ Michael D. Helsel

Michael D. Helsel, Esq.

 
cc:
Walter Witoshkin
Sasha Afanassiev
 
Enclosures (3)
 
 
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EXHIBIT 31.1

CERTIFICATION

I, Walter W. Witoshkin, certify that:

1.  
I have reviewed this Form _______ of QuantRx Biomedical Corporation;

2.  
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.  
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.  
The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have:

a.  
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b.  
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c.  
Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d.  
Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 


 
5.  
The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a.  
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b.  
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.



Date:  ___________________



 
/s/ Walter W. Witoshkin                             
Walter W. Witoshkin
Chairman & CEO

 


EXHIBIT 31.2

CERTIFICATION

I, Sasha Afanassiev, certify that:

1.  
I have reviewed this Form ____ of QuantRx Biomedical Corporation;

2.  
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.  
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.  
The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have:

a.  
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b.  
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c.  
Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d.  
Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 


 
5.  
The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a.  
All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b.  
Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.



Date:  ______________



 
/s/ Sasha Afanassiev                                  
Sasha Afanassiev
CFO, Treasurer & VP of Finance
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