Item 8.01 Other Events
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (the "Company") filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 ("2008 10-K") on February 12, 2009. As a participant in the Securities and Exchange Commission's voluntary XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) program, the Company has attached as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K the following components of the Company's 2008 10-K formatted in XBRL: (i) the Consolidated Income Statements for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, (ii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, (iv) Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, and (v) the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T, users of this data are advised that the financial information contained in the XBRL-related documents is unaudited and that these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Company. The purpose of submitting these XBRL-related documents is to test the related format and technology, and, as a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.
In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.

The following exhibits are furnished herewith:

100 The following financial statements from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed on February 12, 2009, formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Consolidated Income Statements for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, (ii) the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006,
(iv) Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, and (v) the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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