Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3

0001193125-12-336995.txt : 20120806 0001193125-12-336995.hdr.sgml : 20120806 20120806122633 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-12-336995 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: POS AM PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120806 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120806 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MEDTOX SCIENTIFIC INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000739944 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MEDICAL LABORATORIES [8071] IRS NUMBER: 953863205 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: POS AM SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-74562 FILM NUMBER: 121009055 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 402 WEST COUNTY ROAD D CITY: ST PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55112 BUSINESS PHONE: 6126367466 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 402 WEST COUNTY ROAD D CITY: ST PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55112 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EDITEK INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19940902 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 POS AM 1 d389618dposam.htm POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 6, 2012

Registration No. 333-74562

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

MEDTOX SCIENTIFIC, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

95-3863205

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

402 West County Road D

St. Paul, Minnesota 55112

(651) 636-7466

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

F. Samuel Eberts III

President and Secretary

MEDTOX Scientific, Inc.

c/o Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings

358 South Main Street

Burlington, NC 27215

(336) 229-1127

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

with copies to:

Michael J. Silver

John H. Booher

Hogan Lovells US LLP

875 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(212) 918-3000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box: ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box: ¨

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (333-74562), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 5, 2001 (the “Registration Statement”) by MEDTOX Scientific, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The Registration Statement registered the resale of up to 261,259 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.15 per share, by the selling stockholders thereunder.

On July 31, 2012, pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated June 3, 2012, as amended, between the Company, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, a Delaware corporation (“LabCorp”) and Mercer Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and direct wholly owned subsidiary of LabCorp (“Purchaser”), Purchaser merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of LabCorp.

As a result of the Merger, the Company ceased to be an independent, publicly traded company, and the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration the securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Burlington, state of North Carolina, on August 6, 2012.


MEDTOX SCIENTIFIC, INC.

By:	/s/ F. Samuel Eberts III
	Name:	F. Samuel Eberts III
	Title: President and Secretary

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints F. Samuel Eberts III and William B. Hayes, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities (including his or her capacity as a director and/or officer) to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.


Signature	Title	Date

/s/ F. Samuel Eberts III F. Samuel Eberts III	President, Secretary and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	August 6, 2012

/s/ William B. Hayes William B. Hayes	Executive Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)	August 6, 2012

/s/ Sandra D. van der Vaart Sandra D. van der Vaart	Assistant Secretary and Director	August 6, 2012