Section 1 Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure
This Form SD of Danaher
Corporation (the Company) is filed pursuant to Rule
13p-1
promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.
A copy of the Companys Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD, and is publicly available at
www.danaher.com
under the Investors caption and Financial
Reports-SEC
Filings and Corporate Governance subcaptions.
Rule
13p-1
(the Rule) requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts
to manufacture products for which the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their
derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (the Conflict Minerals). The Covered Countries for the purposes of the Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African
Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. Certain of the Companys operations manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products for which the Conflict Minerals are necessary to the functionality or production
of those products.
The Company has conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the Conflict Minerals. This inquiry was reasonably designed
to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals originated in the Covered Countries and whether any of the Conflict Minerals may be from recycled or scrap sources. The Companys reasonable country of origin inquiry was part of its due
diligence on the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals.
Based on this reasonable country of origin inquiry, the Company has reason to
believe that certain of its necessary Conflict Minerals may have originated in the Covered Countries and are not from recycled or scrap sources. The Companys due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals, including
its efforts to determine the countries of origin of the Conflict Minerals, are described in the Companys Conflict Minerals Report.
As specified in Section 2, Item 2.01 of this Form SD, the Company is hereby filing its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this report.
Section 2 Exhibits
The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.
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Exhibit
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Description
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1.01
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Conflict Minerals Report of Danaher Corporation.
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