/C O R R E C T I O N -- Forest Laboratories, Inc./

NEW YORK and BARCELONA, Spain, May. 16 /PRNewswire/ --

In the news release, Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Laboratorios Almirall, S.A. to Host Webcast to Discuss Aclidinium Bromide Data Presentations at the American Thoracic Society Annual Congress, issued yesterday, May 15, by Forest Laboratories, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the passcode for live audio-only access is 70052694; the original release issued did not list one.

Complete, corrected release follows:

Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Laboratorios Almirall, S.A. to Host Webcast to Discuss Aclidinium Bromide Data Presentations at the American Thoracic Society

Annual Congress

NEW YORK and BARCELONA, Spain, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. , and Laboratorios Almirall, S.A. (ALM.MC) will host a webcast to discuss aclidinium bromide clinical and pre-clinical data findings presented at the American Thoracic Society Annual Congress. The webcast, which will include a slide presentation and a Q&A session, will occur on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 9:30am New York time, 3:30pm CET, 2:30pm UKT.

Representing Almirall will be Per-Olof Andersson, Executive Director, Research and Development, Gonzalo de Miquel, Global Medical Director and Jordi Beleta, Director of Biology of Almirall. Representing Forest Laboratories will be Dr. Lawrence Olanoff, President and Chief Operating Officer of Forest.

The webcast can be accessed at the URL: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol- eventDetails&c=83198&eventID=1853706 (Due to the length of the link, please copy and paste into you're browser.)

Live audio-only access to the webcast can be obtained by dialing the following phone numbers: The passcode is 70052694

For U.S. participants: 866.831.6162 For all international participants: +617.213.8852

The webcast will be available on Forest Laboratories' and Almirall's websites at www.frx.com and the same date.

A replay of the webcast will be available on both websites.

An audio-only replay will be available until May 28, 2008 and can be accessed by dialing the following phone numbers: The passcode is 52634048

For U.S. participants: 888-286-8010

For all international participants: + 617-801-6888