David Bloom Joins Emergency Filtration Products Board of Directors

Business Wire, May 10, 2004

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2004

Career CEO & Serial Entrepreneur to Add Sales and Marketing

Expertise into Emergency Filtration Products Board

Emergency Filtration Products Inc. (EFP) (OTCBB: EMFP) is pleased to announce the appointment of David E. Bloom to its board of directors. Bloom is an accomplished serial entrepreneur and career CEO who has founded a number of highly successful businesses over the course of his business career.

Bloom is currently president and CEO, Le Gourmet Chef, a New Jersey-based housewares company, which he joined in 2001 and where he has led a successful turnaround effort. Prior to joining Le Gourmet Chef, Bloom was the founder and CEO of Princeton Photo Network, a portrait photography chain that he founded in 1999. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Sneaker Stadium, a athletic shoe store chain that was sold to buyout firm Thomas Lee for $95 million in 1997. Bloom was also president and CEO of Record World, chief operating officer of Barnes & Noble Bookstores and president and CEO of Herman's World of Sporting Goods, a 260-store chain with sales of $700 million.

"We are very fortunate to have David Bloom join our board," said Douglas K. Beplate, president, EFP. "I have known David for many years and have been consistently impressed at his ability to point any company he joins in the right direction. David's immediate efforts will be to assist us in growing our revenues in several key markets as rapidly as possible; we are confident that his sales and marketing expertise will help us build EFP into a successful and rapidly growing company."

"EFP is a unique company with proprietary world-class filter technology that can serve as a platform for literally thousands of product applications," Bloom commented. "The company should now focus on rapidly increasing its sales in a number of markets as quickly as possible; I intend to help them reach this objective."

About Emergency Filtration Products Inc.

EFP is an air filtration products manufacturer whose technology provides filtration efficiencies of "greater than 99.99% at a particle size of 0.027 microns." Its initial products were developed for the medical market: the Vapor Isolation Valve(TM); RespAide -- a CPR mask used for resuscitation of respiratory/cardiac arrest cases; an A.E.D. prep kit; and the 2H Breathing Circuit Filter. Each has received FDA approval. EFP's 2H NanoMask with 27 nanometers filtration capability relies on the company's core 2H Technology(TM) filtration system, which utilizes a combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic filters able to capture and isolate bacterial and viral microorganisms with efficiencies of 99.99%. The environmental mask utilizes the company's patented 2H Technology(TM) and nano-technology to enhance the capture-and-isolation characteristics of the filter media. In addition to filtration products, the company also supplies Superstat, a modified hemostatic collagen, to the medical market and U.S. military for extreme wound care.

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release contains forward-looking statements pursuant to the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this news release are "forward-looking statements" that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of the company could differ significantly from those statements.