WILMINGTON, Mass. – Ahura Scientific, Inc., a leader in rugged, ultra-compact handheld instruments for chemicalentification, today announced that it has achieved a significant corporate milestone with the shipment of its 2000th chemicalentification unit. The accomplishment is the result of an increasing demand for the company’s award-winning Raman spectroscopy-based FirstDefender® and TruScan™ instruments, and it’s most recent product, TruDefender™ FT, which is based on Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Ahura Scientific’s units are widely deployed by numerous organizations across the globe in the safety and security, pharmaceutical and consumer products industries. Ahura Scientific shipped its first product in May 2005 and reached the shipment of its 2000th unit in October 2008. AstraZeneca PLC, based in France, is the recipient of the 2000th unit, TruScan, for which Ahura Scientific has honored AstraZeneca with a plaque to mark this milestone. AstraZeneca is applying the handheld TruScan solution forentification of incoming raw materials used in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. The company first selected TruScan in 2007, and is continuously sharing the innovative technology throughout its global facilities. "The handheld and portable molecular spectroscopy market has rapidly developed over the past two years, and should see very strong growth for the foreseeable future,” noted Stuart Press, Vice President – Strategic Analysis at Strategic Directions International, Inc. “Ahura Scientific has positioned itself as one of the leading companies in this new and very dynamic segment of the analytical instrument market." “We are extremely proud of the loyal customer base our company has built over the years,” said Doug Kahn, Ahura Scientific’s chairman and CEO. “Responding to our customers’ needs has always been and will continue to be our number one focus, and this recent milestone provides further confirmation that we are moving in the right direction. Our success could not be possible without the support of our employees, the local business community, our board of directors and investors.” Since 2002, Ahura Scientific has designed, developed and successfully launched products unlike any in the marketplace, putting the power, reliability and accuracy of expensive, lab-based instruments in portable, rugged, easy-to-use systems designed for field use. As research shows, a fundamental need exists within the safety and security market for handheld analytical instruments that can detect andentify unknown chemical substances quickly and precisely at the point of use. This helps save lives, prevents major economic and public disruptions, and aids in resolving emergencies. In addition, within the pharmaceutical and consumer products industries, there is a need for handheld instruments that assure quality control of raw materials,entify counterfeit products and detect contaminated goods in real-time. Ahura Scientific and its executives have received numerous prestigious awards, including the Ernst and Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year award (Founder and President Dr. Daryoosh Vakhshoori); R&D Magazine’s R&D 100; the Industrial Design Society of America Award (IDEA) for Excellence in Industrial Design; the 2007 SBANE Innovation Award; the Boston Business Journal’s 2008 Best Places to Work Award; the 2008 American Business Award for “Most Innovative Company;” and, most recently, the company was named number 65 on Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies of 2008 list. About Ahura Scientific, Inc. Ahura Scientific, Inc. is a leading provider of a new of ultra-compact analytical instruments. These rugged handheld instruments are used for real-timeentification of chemical substances. Customers include government agencies and companies in the safety and security, pharmaceutical, and consumer products markets. Manufactured in the USA in an ISO 9001-certified facility, the company’s products offer exceptional portability and performance. For more information, visit www.ahurascientific.com. Media Contact: Kerstin Barr, Ahura Scientific, Inc. Phone: 978-642-2547 Email: kbarr@ahurascientific.com