SEC Company Response from China Health Holding, Inc. (CIK 0001302331) — Dec 22, 2004
China Health Holding, Inc. (CIK 0001302331)
Date: Dec. 22, 2004 · CIK: 0001302331 · Accession: 0001013762-04-001435
AI Filing Summary & Sentiment
File numbers found in text: 333-119034
Referenced dates: December 9, 2004
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SICHENZIA ROSS FRIEDMAN FERENCE LLP
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December 22, 2004
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AND FEDERAL EXPRESS
Mail Stop 3-9
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549
Attn: Jeffrey Riedler, Assistant Director
Zafar Hasan, Esq.
Ms. Dana Hartz
Ms. Lisa Vanjoske
Re: China Health Holding, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form SB-2
File No. 333-119034
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The following responses address the comments of the reviewing Staff of
the Commission as set forth in a comment letter dated December 9, 2004 relating
to the Registration Statement on Form SB-2 of China Health Holding, Inc. (the
"Company"). On behalf of the Company, we respond as follows.
General
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1. There appear to be conflicting statements regarding the amount of time
the Company can fund operations. In the risk factor titled, "Our
financial status creates doubt..." on page 2, you indicate that you
have sufficient capital resources to fund current operations for 12-24
months whereas in "Plan of Operation" on page 13, you indicate that
your cash will satisfy requirements for 6 months. Please clarify this
disclosure so that the two statements are reconciled.
Response
The disclosure in the risk factor titled "Our financial status creates
doubt..." on page 2 was revised to state that the Company has
sufficient capital resources to fund current operations for the next
six months.
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Plan of Distribution, page 10
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2. Please revise your statement that any broker-dealers who execute sales
for the selling shareholders may be deemed to be underwriters to
clarify that broker dealers will be deemed to be underwriters.
Response
The referenced statement on page 10 was revised to clarify that any
broker-dealers who execute sales for the selling stockholders will be
deemed to be underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act.
Plan of Operation, page 12
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3. In addition, in prior comment 27, we required that the Company
"allocate the amounts necessary over the next 12 months to cover all
budget expenses deemed material." However, we could not locate this
information, other than a reference to expected media expenses of
$200,000 in the Business section. Please help us identify this
information in the document.
Response
Disclosure was added under "Future Development" on page 12, of the
anticipated expenses of the Company over the next twelve months.
4. Please revise to indicate when you expect your website to be
operational and if you expect it to be multilingual at that time.
Response
Disclosure was added under "Future Development" on page 12, that the
Company plans to have its website operational in April 2005, with
multi-language and multi-currency capabilities in 2006.
5. Do you have any agreements with retail and/or wholesale distributors?
When do you expect to commence sales through these parties?
Response
Disclosure was added under "Future Development" on page 12, that the
Company does not currently have any agreements with retail or wholesale
distributors. The disclosure provides that the Company's management
will work to negotiate and enter into retail and wholesale distribution
agreements for its products over the next twelve months
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6. Have you located sites to establish retail stores? If you have,
disclose when you expect to begin establishing these sites. If you have
not, please disclose your expected timeframe for locating sites and
beginning retail operations in North America.
Response
Disclosure was added under "Future Development" on page 12, that the
Company has not yet located any sites to establish retail stores but is
initially looking for locations in New York, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas or other large cities in the United
States. Disclosure was also added that the Company plans to open its
first retail storefront in the United States within the next twelve
months.
Research and Development, page 13
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7. Please revise to move the last paragraph, which discloses that you
currently do not have any rights to these products, to precede the
description of the products.
Response
As per your request, the last paragraph was moved to precede the
description of the products described under "Research and Development"
on page 12.
8. Disclose whether you will need the approval of the FDA or foreign
regulators before you can sell these products. If you will, will you
need to repeat the clinical studies that you reference or perform
additional clinical studies?
Response
Disclosure was added under "Research and Development" on page 12, that
under current regulations, the products do not require approval by the
FDA or foreign regulators before the Company can sell them
9. We note your statements that these products have been subject to
clinical studies. Please revise to describe the clinical testing that
was performed. Did the parties conducting these studies consult with
the FDA or foreign regulators in designing the studies?
Response
Disclosure was added under "Research and Development" on pages 12 and
13, that clinical testing was performed in accordance with regulatory
standards in the People's Republic of China and that the United States
Food and Drug Administration was not consulted in designing the
clinical tests.
10. Please disclose you performed statistical analyses on the results of
these clinical trials and the p value if you have. If you did not
perform statistical analyses, revise to disclose that statistical
analyses were not performed and the significance of not performing
these analyses.
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Response
Disclosure was added under "Research and Development" on pages 12 and
13 whether the Company conducted statistical analyses of the clinical
trials and the p values were provided where the Company had them. Where
statistical analyses were not conducted, disclosure of that fact was
provided along with the significance of not performing these analyses.
Business, page 14
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11. Please revise the descriptions of each of your product lines to clarify
that your products are considered to be dietary supplements, as opposed
to pharmaceutical products or drugs and therefore they are not subject
to the stringent clinical tests to which pharmaceutical products are
subjected.
Response
Descriptions of the Company's product lines on pages 14, 16, 18 and 19
were revised to clarify that the products in each of the product lines
are considered to be dietary supplements and that they are not subject
to stringent clinical tests to which pharmaceutical products are
subjected.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, page 32
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12. Please revise to state whether each of these transactions is on terms
as favorable as could have been obtained from unrelated third parties.
Response
The disclosure under "Certain Relationships and Related Transactions"
on pages 32, 33 and 34 was revised to state that the Company's
management believes that each of the transactions is on terms as
favorable as could have been obtained from unrelated third parties.
Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies (page F-8)
Revenue Recognition
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13. Please clarify in the disclosure when title and risk of loss transfer
to the customer (i.e., FOB shipping point or FOB destination).
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Response
Note 2 was revised to clarify when title and risk of loss transfer to
the customer and to more clearly define the Company's revenue
recognition policy.
Note 9. Commitment (page F-16)
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14. Please refer to your response to comment 50. We note that you intend to
account for any payments made, in cash or issuance of shares as per
your amended agreement, in accordance with the method discussed in your
response to comment 48. Your response to comment 48 indicates that your
intangibles have an indefinite life. Please clarify to us why you
believe an indefinite life would be appropriate for the license
payments.
Response
The Company has clarified its disclosure by adding the following to its
accounting policy note for intangibles:
Costs incurred in connection with the license agreements entered
into as described in note 9 will be amortized on a straight-line
basis over the term of the underlying license agreements and
will also be tested for impairment annually in accordance with
SFAS 144, "Accounting for the Impairment on Disposal of
Long-Lived Assets" (SFAS 144). The determination of any
impairment would include a comparison of estimated future
operating cash flows anticipated during the remaining life with
the net carrying value of the asset.
Exhibit 5
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15. We note the statement in the legal opinion that the securities will be
legally and validly issued and non-assessable when issued in the manner
described in the registration statement. Since the securities are
already outstanding and are being registered for resale, please revise
to state that they are legally and validly issued, fully paid and non
assessable.
Response
We revised the legal opinion to state that the securities are legally
and validly issued, fully paid and non assessable.
Item 26. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
16. It appears that shares issued on the same day should have the same fair
value. Please revise the fair value of the shares and the related
service expense or advise us as to why you do not think a revision
is appropriate.
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Response
The Company does not believe that the requested revision is
appropriate. The values assigned to the issuances of all shares agree
to the amounts reflected by the terms underlying each issuance. The
range of prices at which the transactions were completed reflects the
uncertainty as to the fair value of the Company's shares which is
consistent with the start up nature of the Company. In addition, there
were very few transactions, if any, other than the initial founders'
shares, that were by themselves material. The cash transactions in
particular were each a small percentage of the overall outstanding
shares at the time.
Although they make up a relatively small overall percentage of the
share issuances, cash transactions can be a good indicator of fair
value. Since inception of the Company, management has raised small
amounts of money on an investor by investor basis rather than
collectively as part of a more formalized financing. An analysis was
performed whereby the "rolling weighted price per share" of cash
transactions to date was used as a comparative measure for the "fair
value" of the non-cash issuances recorded in the books as at that date.
This analysis suggests that the "fair values" used for recording
non-share transactions may be understated by approximately $11,000,
with approximately $10,000 of this difference attributable to the
acquisition of the "26 100% natural herbal medicinal products" from
Julianna Lu and Xiao Fei Yu on May 1, 2004. In the opinion of the
Company, the present disclosure in Item 26 accurately reflects stock
transactions described therein.
We trust that the foregoing appropriately addresses the issues raised
by your recent comment letter. Thank you in advance for your prompt review and
assistance.
Very truly yours,
/s/ David Schubauer
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David Schubauer
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