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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			HEPALIFE TECHNOLOGIES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001054274
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SURGICAL & MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS & APPARATUS [3841]
		IRS NUMBER:				582349413
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			FL
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		60 STATE STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			02109
		BUSINESS PHONE:		800-518-4879

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		60 STATE STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			BOSTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			02109

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ZETA CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20030219

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ZETA CORP /CA
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20000303
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Attention:&nbsp; Jay Webb, Accounting Reviewer</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Re: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT><B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">HepaLife Technologies, Inc</FONT></B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">.--Response to Letter dated January 13, 2010</FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 (File No. 000-29819)</FONT></U></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face=Calibri,sans-serif></FONT></FONT>&nbsp;</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I am authorized by </FONT><B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">HepaLife Technologies, Inc.</FONT></B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif"> (the &#147;Company&#148;) to submit the responses on its behalf pursuant to your letter dated January 13, 2010 (the &#147;January 13th Letter&#148;) setting forth comments (collectively, the &#147;Staff Comments&#148;) with respect to Amendment 1 of the Form 10-Q for the Quarter Ended June 30, 2009 (the &#147;Form 10-Q/A&#148;). The numbered responses are sequential with respect to the numbered paragraphs in the January 13th Letter, and are stated below. </FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">EXPLANATORY NOTE</FONT></U></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Comment No. 1:</FONT></U></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">We note your response to prior comment 3 where you indicate that your then Chief Financial Officer brought the issue of whether or not an amendment to the company&#146;s financial statements was required to the attention of its Chief Executive Officer and &#147;it was concluded on July 28, 2009 that an amended filing would be required.&#148;&nbsp; Please note that Form 8-K requires you to file the information required by Item 4.02 within four business days after the registrant&#146;s board of directors of the officers of the registrant conclude that any previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon because of an error in such financial statements.&nbsp; Further please note the staff&#146;s views provided in the Division of Corporate Finance C&amp;DI on Exchange Act Form 8-K which can be found in Question 1010.01 at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidan
ce/8-kinterp.htm and which clearly states that all Item 4.01 and Item 4/20 events must be reported on Form 8-K.&nbsp; Please file the required Item 4.02 of Forms 8-K for all the situations where you concluded that your previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon because of an error in those financial statements.&nbsp; Refer to General Instruction B.1 and Item 4.02 of Form 8-K.</FONT></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Response to Comment No. 1:</FONT></U></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">The Company has filed Form 8-K in conjunction with this response letter as you have advised above.&nbsp; Please note that we have filed one Form 8-K which addresses the three financial statement filings that we<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face="Times New Roman">re</FONT> restated due to errors identified by the Company&#146;s management relating to its implementation of EITF 07-5.&nbsp; Since this notification of non-reliance on previously issued financial statements is being filed well after the submission date of the amended filings containing the restated financials, we believe it as less confusing to our investors and potential investors to address these issues and present a historical accounting of the measures taken in one Form 8-K filing.</FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Comment No. 2:</FONT></U></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">We note your response to our prior comment 4.&nbsp; In future filings in which you present previously issued financial statements that include corrections for an error, to help investors clearly identify the impact of the restatements, please label all columns that were impacted by the restatement as &#147;Restated&#148;..</FONT></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><B><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Response to Comment No. 2:</FONT></U></B></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">The Company acknowledges that in the future if it has to restate previously issued financial statements it will label all columns impacted by the correction as &#147;Restated&#148;.&nbsp; </FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Comment No. 3: </FONT></U></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><I><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">We note that your response letter dated December 17, 2009 was not signed.&nbsp; Please resubmit a signed version of your response letter on EDGAR and ensure that your all future response letters and any other written correspondence with the Staff are appropriately signed.&nbsp; Please refer to Item 302 of Regulation S-T.</FONT></I></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Response to Comment No. 3:</FONT></U></B></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; TEXT-DECORATION: none" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif"></FONT></B>&nbsp;</P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" face="Times New Roman,serif"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">In conjunction with this response letter, we have resubmitted our prior response letter with an appropriate signature.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">The Company hopes that the foregoing adequately addresses all of your comments.</FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">Respectfully,</FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US face="Times New Roman,serif">HepaLife Technologies, Inc.</FONT></B></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" color=black face="Times New Roman,serif"><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US color=black face="Times New Roman,serif">/s/ Amit S. Dang</FONT></U></FONT></P>
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