UTAH MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.

UM PR Logo.jpg (12597 bytes)CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
7043 South 300 West
Midvale, Utah 84047
Telephone: 801-566-1200
FAX: 801-566-2062
NASDAQ Symbol: UTMD
www.utahmed.com
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PRESS RELEASE

UTMD Receives GMP Certification from State of Utah
 August 17, 2004

Contact: Paul Richins
(801) 566-1200

Salt Lake City, Utah - Following a July 2004 inspection of its facilities in Midvale, Utah, Utah Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTMD) today received a formal Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Inspection Program “Certificate of Free Sale & Sanitation Inspection” dated August 12, 2004. 

According to the notarized certificate, “Inspection evaluates and assures compliance with the Utah Code Annotated, Title 4 (UCA), which identifies the standards for proper facility construction, good manufacturing practices (GMP) and fulfills requirements of those applicable laws and rules in the State of Utah.”

Utah Medical Products, Inc., with particular interest in health care for women and their babies, develops, manufactures, assembles and markets a broad range of well-established, proven safe and effective, disposable and reusable specialty medical devices.