SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Issuer Delisting; Order Granting the Application of IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. to Withdraw its Common Stock, $.01 par value, from Listing and Registration on the Boston Stock Exchange, Inc. File No. 1-14798

July 15, 2005

On June 6, 2005, IVAX Diagnostics, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Issuer"), filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission"), pursuant to Section 12(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act")¹ and Rule 12d2-2(d) thereunder,² to withdraw its common stock, $.01 par value ("Security"), from listing and registration on the Boston Stock Exchange, Inc. ("BSE"). Notice of such application requesting comments was published in the Federal Register on July 27, 2005.³ No comments were received. As discussed below, the Commission is granting the application.

On June 1, 2005, the Board of Directors ("Board") of the Issuer approved a resolution to withdraw the Security from listing and registration on BSE. In making the decision to withdraw the Security from BSE, the Board stated that the following reasons, among others, factored into its decision. On January 13, 2000, b2bstores.com, Inc. ("b2bstores"), the predecessor to the Issuer, filed a Form 8-A/A with the Commission stating that b2bstores had registered the Security to list on BSE. On March 14, 2001, the Issuer, then a wholly-owned subsidiary of IVAX Corporation, merged with and into b2bstores, and on the same day, the Issuer filed a Form 8-A/A with the Commission stating that the Issuer had registered its Security to list on the American Stock Exhange, LLC ("Amex"). Since that time, the Security has been, and currently continues to be, principally listed and traded on Amex, while it is only listed (but not traded) on BSE.

The Issuer stated in its application that it has complied with BSE rules by complying with all applicable laws in the State of Delaware, the state in which the Issuer is incorporated, and by filing with BSE the required documents governing the withdrawal of securities from listing and registration on BSE. The Issuer's application relates solely to withdrawal of the Security from listing on BSE and shall not affect its continued listing on Amex or its obligation to be registered under Section 12(b) of the Act.⁴

The Commission, having considered the facts stated in the application and having due regard for the public interest and protection of investors, orders that the application be, and it hereby is, granted, effective at the opening of business on July 18, 2005.

For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated authority.⁵

Endnotes

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¹ 15 U.S.C. 78l(d).

² 17 CFR 240.12d2-2(d).

³ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51877 (July 17, 2005), 70 FR 36972.

⁴ 15 U.S.C. 781(b).

⁵ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(1).

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