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Supplementary Information Sundry Income (Expense) - Net (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 1 Months Ended | 2 Months Ended | 3 Months Ended | 8 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017 | Aug. 31, 2017 | Sep. 30, 2018 | Aug. 31, 2017 | Sep. 30, 2018
Successor [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of Sundry Income (Expense) - Net [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Royalty income |  | $ 9 |  | $ 26 |  |  | $ 111
Interest income |  | 12 |  | 13 |  |  | 71
Equity in earnings (losses) of affiliates - net |  | (4) |  | 13 |  |  | 46
Net gain on sales of businesses and other assets |  | 1 |  | (2) |  |  | 11
Net exchange (losses) gains |  | 77 |  | (77) |  |  | (186)
Non-operating pension and other post employment benefit credit (cost) | [1] | 34 |  | 91 |  |  | 278
Miscellaneous income and expenses, net | [2] | 1 |  | 14 |  |  | 73
Sundry income (expense) - net |  | $ 121 |  | $ 52 |  |  | $ 293
Predecessor [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of Sundry Income (Expense) - Net [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Royalty income |  |  | $ 11 |  | $ 84 |  |
Interest income |  |  | 26 |  | 83 |  |
Equity in earnings (losses) of affiliates - net |  |  | 13 |  | 55 |  |
Net gain on sales of businesses and other assets |  |  | 2 |  | 205 | [3] |
Net exchange (losses) gains |  |  | (195) |  | (394) |  |
Non-operating pension and other post employment benefit credit (cost) | [1] |  | (70) |  | (278) |  |
Miscellaneous income and expenses, net | [2] |  | 30 |  | 132 |  |
Sundry income (expense) - net |  |  | $ (183) |  | (113) |  |
Food Safety Diagnostic Business [Member] | Predecessor [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of Sundry Income (Expense) - Net [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Pre-tax gain on disposal |  |  |  |  | 162 |  |
Gain on disposal, net of tax |  |  |  |  | $ 86 |  |
[1] | Includes non-service related components of net periodic benefit credits (costs) (interest cost, expected return on plan assets, amortization of unrecognized (gain) loss, amortization of prior service benefit and curtailment/settlement gain). See Note 2 for discussion of the retrospective adoption of ASU No. 2017-07.
[2] | Miscellaneous income and expenses - net, includes interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits (Predecessor periods only), gains related to litigation settlements, and other items.
[3] | Includes a pre-tax gain of $162 million ($86 million after tax) for the for the period January 1 through August 31, 2017 related to the sale of global food safety diagnostics. See Note 4 for additional information.

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