Universal Detection Technology to Attend Third Annual Conference on Identifying, Managing, and Mitigating the CBRN

LOS ANGELES, CA, Jan 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UDTT) (FRANKFURT:
PO8),
a developer of early warning monitoring technologies to protect people from
bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of
counter-terrorismconsulting and training services, announced that its management
will be
attending the 3rd annual CBRN conference. The conference is aimed at
identifying, managing and mitigating the CBRN threat and is one of the
largest industry events. The objective is facilitating an inter-agency
consequence
management strategy to achieve international resilience by coordinating CBRN
resources from planning to post incident management.

"We are excited to be present at such a high caliber industry event and we
look forward to establishing effective and long term alliances with other
players in and developers of solutions and technologies against the CBRN
threat," said Mr. Jacques Tizabi, UDTT's CEO.

The 2008 CBRN conference is chaired by Lieutenant Colonel Elliot Grollman,
Commander of the Federal Protective Service at the US Department of Homeland
Security.

UDTT is a supplier of counter terrorism services and technologies to private
and government organizations. The Company owns the license to a patented
technology developed at NASA's JPL and utilized in UDTT's BSM-2000 used for
autonomous monitoring of the air for the presence of airborne bacterial spores
such as anthrax. UDTT also supplies detection kits for detection of up to 5
bioterrorism agents. Among the Company's other products are radiation detection
systems, educational material & training DVDs, and antimicrobial chemicals.

For more information please visit www.udetection.com or

Email us at info@udetection.com.

About Universal Detection Technology

Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies,
including
bioterrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development
partners is positioned to capitalize on opportunities related to Homeland
Security. For example, the Company, in cooperation with NASA, has developed a
bio-terror 'smoke' detector that detects certain biohazard substances. For more
information, please visit http://www.udetection.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this
news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks
and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance and
achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results,
performance, and achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to
publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking
statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the
date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes
in the Company's plans or expectations.

Contact:

Jacques Tizabi
Email Contact
310-248-3655

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