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Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of The Dow Chemical Company: We consent to the use in this Annual Report on Form 8 of The Dow Chemical Company for the year ended December 31, 2005 of our report dated February 8, 2006 relating to the consolidated financial statements and consolidated financial statement schedule of the The Dow Chemical Company and subsidiaries (which report expresses an unqualified opinion and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to a change in the method of accounting for stock-based compensation to conform to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 for new grants of equity instruments to employees) appearing in this Annual Report. We also consent to the reference to us under the headings Status of the Reporting Company, Item E-State of Corporate Governance and Financial Condition, General Explanation, Item b. in such Annual Report. /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Deloitte & Touche LLP Midland, Michigan June 15, 2006-213-
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of The Dow Chemical Company: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Dow Chemical Company and subsidiaries (the Company ) as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders equity, comprehensive income and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule Valuation and Qualifying Accounts (Schedule II). These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and the financial statement schedule based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Dow Chemical Company and subsidiaries at December 31, 2005 and 2004, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, such financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. As discussed in Notes A and O to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2003, the Company changed its method of accounting for stock-based compensation to conform to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 for new grants of equity instruments to employees. We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of the Company s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on the criteria established in Internal Control Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 8, 2006 (not presented herein) expressed an unqualified opinion on management's assessment of the effectiveness of the Company s internal control over financial reporting and an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company s internal control over financial reporting. /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Deloitte & Touche LLP Midland, Michigan February 8, 2006-214-