IDEXX Laboratories Announces IDEXX VetLab® “Suite Stories” Contest Winner [Trade]
The next-generation IDEXX VetLab® Suite was presented to Dr. Katie Thompson’s Veterinary Center at Fishhawk in Florida

Westbrook, Maine, November 26, 2007—IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), has awarded the next-generation IDEXX VetLab® Suite, including two revolutionary new analyzers—the Catalyst Dx™ and the SNAPshot Dx™ Analyzers—to Dr. Katie Thompson of the Veterinary Center at Fishhawk in Lithia, Florida. Her winning story describes how her IDEXX VetLab Suite has enhanced the clinic’s ability to practice better medicine, improved their bottom line and saved the life of a favorite, longtime patient.

IDEXX launched the Suite Stories contest this past June. Practices around the country wrote about how their in-house diagnostics have helped them provide a higher level of patient care. Daily prizes were awarded throughout the 15-week contest, and 105 entrants won iPod® Nanos and $25 iTunes® gift cards, making them eligible for the grand prize—the next-generation IDEXX VetLab Suite.

Trusted by more veterinarians worldwide, the IDEXX VetLab® Suite enables veterinarians to offer their patients a higher level of care with the immediacy of in-house results, including clinical chemistry, electrolytes, hematology with optical-flow five-part differential, endocrinology, blood gases, coagulation and urinalysis. The IDEXX VetLab® Station integrates results from all the analyzers and IDEXX SNAP® point-of-care tests into a single, comprehensive and easy-to-use patient report.

Erica Archer, Product Manager for IDEXX VetLab and the Suite Stories Contest manager said, “Choosing the grand prize winner was a difficult task for our panel of esteemed judges—twelve veterinarians in all. The stories made us laugh and they made us cry, and all of them were a testament to the value of immediate diagnostic information from routine exams to critical cases. After weeks of deliberation, the judges chose Dr. Thompson’s story from hundreds of other entries. IDEXX would like to thank all of those who took the time to enter and share their stories with us.”

Dr. Thompson’s story begins, “Having practiced veterinary medicine for ten years, the first eight without the benefit of an in-house blood machine, I knew when I opened my own practice that access to metabolic parameters in an accurate and timely manner was essential. The ability to diagnose and treat pathologies correctly and rapidly is one of our clinic’s core values. What I didn’t know was that my investment in our new IDEXX LaserCyte®, VetTest® 8008 and VetLyte® system was going to help me save an old friend.”

Read all of Dr. Thompson’s story and many others at www.suitestories.com. For more information about the IDEXX VetLab Suite, please contact IDEXX at 1-800-355-2896 or visit www.idexx.com/vetlab.

About the IDEXX VetLab® Suite
The IDEXX VetLab® Suite is a highly integrated set of veterinary analyzers that provides fast and flexible results on a patient’s blood and urine within minutes of the pet visit. Diagnostic capabilities of the suite include clinical chemistry, electrolytes, hematology with five-part differential and reticulocytes, endocrinology, blood gases, coagulation and urinalysis. The IDEXX VetLab® Station, which serves as an information system for the in-house laboratory, integrates results from all the analyzers and IDEXX SNAP® point-of-care tests into a single, comprehensive and easy-to-use patient report and stores this information in its database for easy future reference and historical results-trending capability.

About IDEXX Laboratories
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a leader in companion animal health, serving practicing veterinarians around the world with innovative, technology-based offerings, including a broad range of diagnostic products and services, practice-management systems and pharmaceuticals. IDEXX products enhance the ability of veterinarians to provide advanced medical care and to build more economically successful practices. IDEXX is also a worldwide leader in providing diagnostic tests and information for the production animal industry and tests for the quality and safety of water and milk. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX Laboratories employs more than 4,500 people and offers products to customers in over 100 countries.