Item 8.01 Other Items.

On December 23, 2008, the Registrant received a notification from the Antitrust Division of the U. S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, that a grand jury investigation of the sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) business had been closed, and that the Registrant was no longer required to maintain documents furnished for that investigation. As previously reported in September 2007, the Registrant had been served with a subpoena to produce documents for an investigation into what the DOJ termed "potential antitrust violations" in the STPP industry focusing on the period from 2002 through 2005. The Registrant cooperated fully in the investigation, and, earlier this year, reported it had delivered substantially all responsive materials to the DOJ.