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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-10-009618
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20100224

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000798081
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ORTHOPEDIC, PROSTHETIC & SURGICAL APPLIANCES & SUPPLIES [3842]
		IRS NUMBER:				133115216
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0131

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		701-7 KOEHLER AVENUE
		CITY:			RONKONKOMA
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11779
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6319819700

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		STREET 1:		701- 7 KOEHLER AVENUE
		CITY:			RONKONKOMA
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11779
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yesterday and on behalf of our client, Lakeland Industries Inc., I am forwarding
to you a marked and a clean copy of the revised Independent Auditors&#8217; Report
that is the subject of Comment 1 in your Comment Letter of January 26,
2010.&#160;&#160;If you would be kind enough to notify me that, as I would
expect, the change is satisfactory, I will instruct the Company to immediately
file an amended Report.</font></div>
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30, 2008 and December 31, 2007, and the related statements of profit &amp; loss,
changes in shareholders&#8217;equity and changes in sources and uses of funds<font style="DISPLAY: inline; COLOR: #0000ff">&#160;</font>for the period and year
then ended.&#160;&#160;These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Company&#8217;s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
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conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted
in the United States of America . Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. An &#160;&#160;audit
also include s examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the
amounts and disclosures on the financial statements. The audits also include
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statements presentation.
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statements referred to first paragraph. The statement of cash flow, presented in
order to offer supplementary information about <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">QUALYT&#202;XTIL S.A</font>., is not
required as part of the mandatory financial statements by the accounting
procedures adopted in Brazil. The statement of cash flow regarding the four
month period ended April 30, 2008 and the year ended December 31,
2007 was examined under the same auditing procedures described in the second
paragraph, and in our opinion is fairly stated in all material respects in
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accounting experts, initiate at 2006 a judicial demand against tax authorities,
aiming the recoverance of PIS and Cofins (Social contributions) paid over ICMS
(Value Added Tax) from 2002 to 2006.&#160;&#160;Based on this understanding, the
Company accounted for, at December 31, 2006,&#160;&#160;tax recoverable as
long-term assets, of amount of R$ 688,145.&#160;&#160;The related credit entries
were accounted for as other operational revenues (Statement of loss &#8211; current
year) on amount of R$ 47,338 and on Shareholders&#8217; equity on amount of R$329,811
as prior year adjustments.&#160;&#160;These credits are net of the judicial
demands fees.&#160;&#160;Consequently, the result and Shareholders&#8217; equity of
the period and year ended as of April 2008 and December 31, 2007, were increased
of R$46,086 (R$150,811 at 2007) and R$526,708 (R$480,622 at 2007),
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