UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 16, 2009

Chase Packaging Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Texas	0-21609	93-1216127
(State of incorporation)	(Commission File No.)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

636 River Road
Fair Haven, NJ		07704
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (732) 741-1500

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant

On February 16, 2009, the practice of Lazar Levine & Felix LLP (“Lazar”), an independent registered public accounting firm, was acquired by Parente Randolph, LLC (“Parente”) in a transaction pursuant to which Lazar merged its operations into Parente and certain of the professional staff and partners of Lazar joined Parente either as employees or partners of Parente. On February 16, 2009, and concurrently with the resignation of Lazar, Chase Packaging Corporation, (the “Company”), through and with the approval of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors, engaged Parente as its independent registered public accounting firm.

Prior to engaging Parente, the Company did not consult with Parente regarding the application of accounting principles to a specific completed or contemplated transaction or regarding the type of audit opinions that might be rendered by Parente on the Company’s financial statements, and Parente did not provide any written or oral advice that was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any such accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue.

The reports of the independent registered public accounting firm of Lazar regarding the Company’s financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006 did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, except that, with respect to the Company’s financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, substantial doubt was raised as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. During the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, and during the interim period from the end of the most recently completed fiscal year through February 16, 2009, the date of resignation, there were no disagreements with Lazar on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedures, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Lazar would have caused it to make reference to such disagreement in its reports.

The Company provided Lazar with a copy of this Current Report on Form 8-K prior to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and requested that Lazar furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether it agrees with above statements and, if it does not agree, the respects in which it does not agree. A copy of the letter, dated February 20, 2009, is filed as Exhibit 16.1 (which is incorporated by reference herein) to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01.	Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)	Exhibits

	16.1	Letter from Lazar Levine & Felix LLP, dated February 20, 2009.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	CHASE PACKAGING CORPORATION


Date: February 19, 2009	By:	/s/ Ann C.W. Green
		Ann C.W. Green
		Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary