Universal Detection Technology announced that it will showcase the latest developments in bio-weapons detection technology, including the TS-10-5-agent biodetection kit, at Milipol Paris 2009. Universal Detection Technology's kits, certified earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an 'Approved Product for Homeland Security,' are the only hand-held assay designed to detect and identify up to five separate threats using one sample in a single, easy-to-use device. The kits equip first responders with an effective tool for the rapid onsite detection of up to five biological warfare agents: anthrax, ricin, botulinum toxin, Y. pestis (plague) and Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB). Detection time is under three minutes. Universal Detection Technology will showcase its TS-10-5-agent biodetection kit with live and taped demonstrations at booth #11K059 at Milipol Paris 2009, held November 17-21, 2009.

Universal Detection Technology announced that it is preparing for inclusion in the H.I.R.E. (Hazardous Incident Response Equipment) contract, a special IDIQ contract vehicle established in New York State post 9/11. UNDT's addition to H.I.R.E. has been approved by the contract manager for New York State's Office of General Services and is pending final approval from the State's Comptroller.

Universal Detection Technology announced that it will become a featured exporter of biological weapon detection equipment in South Korea. The U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service will assist UNDT in the listing. The North Korean regime is capable of unleashing 13 types of lethal biological agents. In one of the most detailed assessments of the dictatorship's biological weapons arsenal, the report said that North Korea has the ability to launch as many as 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attacks. In a submission to the South Korean National Assembly, the defense minister also said that the North has 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, believed to include mustard gas, phosgene and sarin. Among its biological agents are anthrax, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, typhoid fever and dysentery. Universal Detection Technology's 5-agent Bioterrorism detection kits, the premier product available under the agreement, have been extensively used by first responders and private industry throughout the United States. Testing of the kits by the U.S. DOD, as well as the United Kingdom military, show that the kits demonstrate no cross-reactivity with near neighbor species and no false positives with commonly encountered white powders.