May 20, 2008

Life Plus announces new alliance that will create expanded services

Life Plus has formed an alliance with an Indian laboratory that brings a unique set of capabilities to clients involved in commercializing new chemical technologies in Europe and those eight countries with chemical control laws: United States, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

Through the new alliance, Life Plus will gain access to lower cost mammalian toxicology testing in a lab that conducts testing in accordance with international standards in support of new substance notifications for industrial chemicals.  

"The lab facility we are using is one of the first in the developing world to obtain toxicology testing that meets the national standards set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Chemical - Good Laboratory Practice, or OECD-GLP," said Mark Cisneros, founder and CEO of Life Plus. "Our clients now have an option of lowering their costs for high-quality, mammalian toxicology testing conducted in an OECD-GLP compliant laboratory." 

Life Plus specializes in services providing:

* Testing oversight.

* Compiling packages of information to support new substance notifications, including expert statements, test reports for chemical-physical properties, environmental fate and effects, and mammalian toxicology.

The total cost of a typical new substance notification package is in the range of $400,000 to $500,000 per new chemical substance and can require 18-24 months. Since about one-half the cost can be associated with mammalian toxicology studies and this new alliance can generate cost savings up to 35 percent and time-savings up to 20 percent, clients can expect to save up to $80,000 plus reduce their time to commercialization of their new chemical technology by three to five months.

"This alliance allows us to increase our cost-effectiveness through significantly discounted toxicology testing costs and help improve our clients' productivity," Cisneros said. "We now have the ability to offer our clients 'one-stop shopping' to help them meet their international testing and listing needs."

Life Plus will continue to build its infrastructure and can now provide its clients a wider range of international testing and listing services.

"Part of Life Plus's unique advantage is its affiliation with several Chinese toxicology labs, which improves the speed of conducting mandatory tests in Chinese labs and reduces the overall testing costs," Cisneros said. 

About Life Plus, LLC

With headquarters at Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Ind., and operations in Beijing, China, Life Plus LLC (http://www.lifeplustox.com/) offers regulatory guidance to firms throughout the world. The company's customer-focused philosophy has generated valuable results for clients, including the first successful navigation of a new substance notification through the new Chinese chemical control law. Life Plus provides in-country quality assurance, in particular in India, expert Life Plus agents train and audit lab facilities to maintain high performance.

About Purdue Research Park

The 725-acre Purdue Research Park (http://www.purdueresearchpark.com) has the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country. The park is home to more than 140 companies. About 90 of these firms are technology-related and another 39 are incubator businesses. The park was ranked No. 1 in 2004 for university- affiliated research parks and received the 2005 Outstanding Commercialization Award, both from the Association of University Research Parks. The park's companies also have received numerous recognitions, including a 2006 MIRA Award: Innovation of the Year for Purdue Research Park/Quadraspec Inc. and a 2005 CoreNet Global Innovators Award finalist. The Purdue Research Park is part of the Purdue Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit foundation created to assist Purdue University in the area of economic development. In addition to the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, the foundation has established or is currently constructing technology parks in other locations around Indiana, including Merrillville, New Albany and Indianapolis.

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and involve significant risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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Purdue Research Park contact: Cynthia Sequin, (765) 494-4192, (765) 413-6013 (mobile), casequin@prf.org

Life Plus contact: Mark Cisneros, (765) 807-0778, mark@lifeplustox.com