Lifecore Launches First Global E-Commerce Website for Oral Restorative Products

Nov. 16, 2001
Site helps customers evaluate product informaiton and facilitate ordering process.

LIFECORE BIOMEDICAL, INC. (Nasdaq:LCBM) announced today that it has launched the first comprehensive global e-commerce website in the dental implant industry. The newly redesigned corporate website helps current customers evaluate product ordering information and facilitates 24/7 order access. The site is also designed to attract and disseminate product information to potential new customers. Some of the new site's features include access to five catalogs covering Lifecore's Surgical, Restorative, and Regenerative product lines as well as downloadable brochures. A planned second phase of the site will make patient information available in multiple languages and allow dental professionals to refer patients to Lifecore for help in understanding the dental implant process.

Lifecore's new website was designed and implemented by Lancet

Software Development, Inc., of Minneapolis.

Lifecore Biomedical develops, manufactures, and markets

biomaterials and medical devices for use in various surgical markets.

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements

as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Statements implying improved marketing or financial success due to

expanded Internet access are subject to change. Because of numerous

risks and uncertainties in the complex regulatory aspects of

Lifecore's business activity, actual results may differ materially

from those implied. Investors are strongly cautioned to review more

detailed discussions of those risks presented in the Company's reports

on Forms 10-Q and 10-K.

Additional news and general information are available through the

Company's website at http://www.lifecore.com.

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CONTACT: Lifecore Biomedical, Inc., Chaska

Jim Bracke, 612/368-4300

or

Dennis J. Allingham, 612/368-4300

or

Colleen M. Olson, 612/368-4300

or

[email protected]