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Cardinal Health's Global Calibration Laboratory Receives Presigious NVLAP Accreditation

CLEVELAND, Ohio (September 17, 2003) — Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE:CAH), the leading provider of products and services supporting the health care industry, today announced that its Radiation Management Services business has successfully achieved NVLAP accreditation for its Global Calibration Laboratory by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The accreditation, administered by the Institute’s National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), will provide Cardinal Health customers the added assurance that their radiation calibrations are being held to even higher standards.

“The majority of labs are not as accurate or technically competent as NVLAP accreditation requires, leaving them liable to regulatory problems,” said Clare Grehofsky, Director, Global Calibration Laboratory. “With NVLAP accreditation, customers can be assured that they are getting the best possible calibrations with the most accurate results.”

Specifically, this accreditation means that Cardinal Health’s Global Calibration Laboratory operates in accordance with NVLAP management and technical requirements pertaining to quality systems, personnel, accommodation and environment, test and calibration methods, equipment, measurement traceability, sampling, handling of test and calibration items, and test and calibration reports.

NVLAP is comprised of a series of laboratory accreditation programs, each of which include specific calibration and/or test standards and related methods and protocols assembled to satisfy unique needs for accreditation in a field of testing or calibration. NVLAP accredits laboratories based on evaluation of their technical qualifications and competence to carry out specific calibrations or tests.

In addition to NVLAP, the Global Calibration Laboratory assures customers that their test, measurement and quality assurance needs are being met through rigorous compliance with ISO 9001:2000, ISO 13485, EN 46001, FDA/QSR, and NRC/Part 50, Appendix B/Part 21. The facility also adheres to ISO 17025, ANSI Z540, Mammography MQSA, CNSC, and NIST & PTB Traceable.

About Radiation Management Services

As part of Nuclear Pharmacy Services, the Radiation Management Services business of Cardinal Health is an industry leader in providing solutions for maintaining safe, regulatory-compliant practices in medical and therapeutic imaging facilities. The company develops and distributes radiation detection instruments, accessories, supplies and information management software to more than 50,000 customers worldwide (www.cardinal.com/rms).

About Cardinal Health

Cardinal Health, Inc. (www.cardinal.com)is the leading provider of products and services supporting the health care industry. Cardinal Health companies develop, manufacture, package and market products for patient care; develop drug-delivery technologies; distribute pharmaceuticals, medical-surgical and continents and produces annual revenues of more than $47 billion. Cardinal Health is ranked #19 on the current Fortune 500 list and was named one of “The World’s Best” companies by Forbes magazine in 2003.

Except for historical information, all other information in this news release consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied. The most significant of these uncertainties are described in Cardinal Health's Form 10-K, Form 8-K and Form 10-Q reports (including all amendments to those reports) and exhibits to those reports, and include (but are not limited to) the costs, difficulties, and uncertainties related to the integration of acquired businesses, the loss of one or more key customer or supplier relationships, changes in the distribution patterns or reimbursement rates for health-care products and/or services, the costs and other effects of governmental regulation and legal and administrative proceedings, and general economic and market conditions. Cardinal Health undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.

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