FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ABMC PRODUCTS SOLD THROUGH EDWARDS MEDICAL SUPPLY
Nation's Number One Occupational Health Supplier Now Marketing Rapid Drug Screen® and OralStat6™

KINDERHOOK, N.Y. -- Feb. 14, 2002 -- American Bio Medica Corporation (NASDAQ: ABMC) today announced that it has launched a marketing partnership with Edwards Medical Supply, the top supplier of medical products and services to the occupational health market in the United States. Under this arrangement, Edwards is selling its customers ABMC's Rapid Drug Screen on-site urine-based drug screening tests, as well as OralStat6, ABMC's saliva-based device for on-site drugs of abuse screening.

Rapid Drug Screen is now one of only two on-site urine tests offered by Edwards; OralStat6 is the exclusive offering by Edwards for on-site saliva drug testing. Edwards is providing marketing support for the products, and is currently featuring Rapid Drug Screen in the "new products" section of its Web site (www.edwardsmedical.com) as "The most cost-effective substance abuse test on the market for on-site testing."

Bolingbrook, Ill.-based Edwards Medical Supply has a 70-year history serving the occupational health industry. It lists many Fortune 100 Companies as national accounts.

Working with Edwards, says ABMC chairman and chief executive officer Gerald Moore, affords ABMC significant sales leverage, as well as the opportunity to be identified with a market leader.

"This is one of the most important relationships ABMC has ever developed," said Moore. "We are already beginning to realize the up-side sales potential of working with Edwards, both in terms of their network -- they sell nearly a million drug tests every year -- and their image as the standard bearer for occupational health resources.

"When you add our recently-signed agreements with Quest Diagnostics and Express Personnel to this relationship with Edwards, it is clear that ABMC has made very substantial, tangible strides forward in extending our sales reach and associating ourselves with the top levels of the clinical, workplace and occupational health markets."

About Edwards

Edwards Medical Supply is the nation's leading supplier of medical products and services to the occupational health market. The company strives to provide a unique blend of service, product selection and management solutions to occupational health professionals nationwide. Edwards is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of personal service from its nationwide account management team.

About American Bio Medica Corporation

American Bio Medica Corporation develops, manufactures and markets inexpensive, accurate, on-site drugs-of-abuse diagnostic kits, sprays and support services worldwide. The company's global distributors target the workplace, physicians, corrections, clinical, and educational markets. ABMC's Rapid Drug Screen and OralStat6 test for the presence of absence of drugs of abuse in urine and saliva, respectively, while its Drug Detector™ identifies minute traces of illegal drugs on surfaces. ABMC was recently listed among the top ten biotechnology companies on the Deloitte & Touche 2001 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America.

Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, including without limitation, continued acceptance of the Company's products, increased levels of competition for the Company, new products and technological changes, intellectual property rights and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


Contact:
     American Bio Medica Corporation
     Stan Cipkowski, 800/227-1243
     Fax: 518/758-8171
     E-mail: stan@americanbiomedica.com
     Web: www.americanbiomedica.com