Avitar, Inc. Invites You to Join Third Quarter Earnings Live Conference Call on the Web

August 08, 2001

CANTON, Mass., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Avitar, Inc.'s (Amex: - news) Third Quarter Financial Results, you are invited to listen to its conference call and webcast with CEO Peter Phildius and CFO Jay Leatherman that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

    What:   Avitar, Inc. Third Quarter Earnings

    When:   Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time

    Where:  avitarinc.com or http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=834

    How:    Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to either web listed above

The webcast will be listen-only. To ask questions you are invited to participate by phone. Within the U.S. dial and internationally dial . Participant Code is 437508.

    Contacts: Tara Wynn, Avitar, Inc., , or
              John Ingoldsby, Ingoldsby Investor Relations, Inc., 

ABOUT AVITAR

Avitar, Inc. (Amex: - news) headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts, is a diagnostics company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative and proprietary medical devices in two major areas: the oral fluid drugs-of-abuse market and the disease & clinical testing market. Oral fluid diagnostics includes both the drugs-of-abuse testing market estimated to be worth $1.5 billion encompassing the corporate workplace and criminal justice markets. Avitar's products include ORALscreen(TM), the world's first non-invasive, rapid, onsite oral fluid test for drugs-of-abuse, and HAIRscreen(TM), a laboratory-based hair test for detecting long-term drug abuse. In the $20 billion disease & clinical testing market, Avitar is currently developing products that will address the conditions of Lyme disease, influenza and diabetes, as well as pregnancy.

For more information, see Avitar's website at avitarinc.com.

• (Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast: The RealPlayer software, downloadable free from www.real.com/products/player/index.html, and at least a 14.4Kbps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the broadcast, send an email to .)