American Bio Medica Wins Mexican Army Contract for Third Consecutive Year
05/17/2006 09:51
American Bio Medica Corporation (NASDAQ: ABMC) today announced that for the third consecutive year they have received a contract from the Mexican Army to supply them with the Company's drugs of abuse testing products through a sub-distributor of ABMC's authorized distributor, Devor Diagnostics SA de CV.
To obtain this contract, the Company's Rapid Drug Screen(R) products were evaluated against a number of competitive products. The Rapid Drug Screen was the only test found to be accurate in the testing of all three drugs for which the Army tests. ABMC has already begun shipping product under this contract, the first order of which was for 52,000 units.
Stan Cipkowski, ABMC Chief Executive Officer stated, "We believe the fact that we have won this contract for three consecutive years speaks volumes for both the quality of our products and the service of our distributor Devor Diagnostics. Because this is a federal contract, other federal agencies can order under it; in fact, the Mexican Federal Police have already placed an order of 15,000 units as a result of this contract. It is because of contracts like this that we have seen increased sales in Mexico to date."
Jose Oruna of ABMC's distributor Devor Diagnostics stated, "I am pleased that the Army continues to have confidence in ABMC's products. It is great to know that the Army tested and re-tested the Rapid Drug Screen products and found them to be more accurate than any of the other tests submitted. This builds confidence in the ABMC products throughout Mexico."
For more information on ABMC or its drug testing products, please visit www.abmc.com.
About American Bio Medica Corporation
American Bio Medica Corporation is a biotechnology company that develops, manufactures and markets accurate, cost-effective immunoassay diagnostic test kits, including some of the world's most effective point of collection tests for drugs of abuse. The Company and its worldwide distribution network target the workplace, government, corrections, clinical and educational markets. ABMC's Rapid Drug Screen, Rapid One(R), Rapid TEC(R), RDS(R) InCup(R) and Rapid TOX(TM) products test for the presence or absence of drugs of abuse in urine, while OralStat(R) tests for the presence or absence of drugs of abuse in oral fluids. ABMC's Rapid Reader(TM) is a compact, portable device that, when connected to any computer, interprets the results of an ABMC drug screen, and sends the results to a data management system, enabling the test administrator to easily manage their drug testing program.
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