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  ONE BECTON DR
  FRANKLIN LAKES
  NJ
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  BURZIK CATHERINE M
  Director
  Common stock
  Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  245 Summer Street
  Boston
  MA
  02110
  400
  94312.00
  289042418
  09/16/2024
  NYSE
  Common stock
  01/26/2016
  Stock Award
  Becton, Dickinson and Company
  N
  400
  01/26/2016
  N/A
  Y
  Shares are sold from account, Catherine & Francis Burzik Foundation, Catherine M. Burzik - President
  09/16/2024
  05/24/2023
  /s/ Audrey Skillern, as a duly authorized representative of Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, as attorney-in-fact for Catherine M. Burzik