SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2013

Segment information for the three months ended February 28/29, 2013 and 2012 follows:


	Food Safety		Animal Safety		Corporate and Eliminations (1)			Total
	(In thousands)
Fiscal 2013
Net sales to external customers	$	25,311	$	25,744	$	0		$	51,055
Operating income (reduction)		5,668		4,679		(681	)		9,666
Total assets		90,953		124,899		65,173			281,025

Fiscal 2012
Net sales to external customers	$	21,923	$	22,989	$	0		$	44,912
Operating income (reduction)		5,119		3,174		(744	)		7,549
Total assets		83,053		103,262		54,032			240,347

Segment information for the nine months ended February 28/29, 2013 and 2012 follows:


	Food Safety		Animal Safety		Corporate and Eliminations (1)			Total
	(In thousands)
Fiscal 2013
Net sales to external customers	$	77,537	$	73,985	$	0		$	151,522
Operating income (reduction)		20,450		11,868		(1,848	)		30,470

Fiscal 2012
Net sales to external customers	$	67,247	$	68,254	$	0		$	135,501
Operating income (reduction)		17,961		8,851		(1,770	)		25,042

(1)	Includes corporate assets, consisting principally of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, deferred assets and overhead expenses not allocated to specific business segments. Also includes the elimination of intersegment transactions.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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