Associated Press Publishes Article on Universal Detection Technology

Business Wire, March 11, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Universal Detection Technology (OTCBB:UDTT) announces that it has posted on its website, the news article published by the Associated Press on March 9, 2005. For those shareholders and other interested parties that wish to read the article in full please visit the Press Room section at the Company's website http://www.udetection.com .

About Universal Detection Technology

Universal Detection Technology (UDTT), founded in 1973, is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bio-terrorism detection devices. Management believes that the Company's technology, together with third party technologies and devices, has positioned it to capitalize on growth and value opportunities related to Homeland Security. UDTT, in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has developed a bio-terror `smoke' detector, which combines JPL's spore detection technology with UDTT's aerosol capture device.

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Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause a company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the funding of amounts of capital adequate to provide for our working capital needs and our timely repayment of debt, our ability to timely and cost effectively complete the development and testing of our products targeted to the bio-chemical market, our ability to commercially produce our products on a profitable basis, commercial acceptance of our products, product price volatility, product demand, market competition and general economic conditions, and other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation and do not intend to revise or update publicly any forward looking statements for any reason.