As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May  29, 2003

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                          ______________________________
                                    FORM S-8

                              REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                       UNDER
                            THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          ______________________________

                            FOOD TECHNOLOGY SERVICE, INC.
                (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
         FLORIDA                                               59-2618503
(State of Incorporation)                                    (I.R.S. Employer)
                               502 Prairie Mine Road
                              Mulberry, Florida 33860
                       (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

                   2000 INCENTIVE AND NON-STATUTORY STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)

                             Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                           Food Technology Service, Inc.
                             502 Prairie Mine Road
                             Mulberry, Florida 33860
                             Telephone: (941)425-0039
(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code,
 of Agent for Service)
                           ______________________________
                                    Copy to:
                           WILLIAM J. SCHIFINO, ESQ.
                     Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.
                                   Suite 2600
                              One Tampa City Center
                              Tampa, Florida 33602
                          ______________________________
         Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale to the Public:
  As soon as practicable after the effective date of the Registration Statement.
                          ______________________________
                          CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed             Proposed
                      Amount         Maximum          Maximum       Amount of
Title of Securities   to be          Offering Price   Aggregate     Registration
to be Registered     Registered(1)   Per Share (2)    Offering Price    Fee
Common Stock,
  $.01 par value      500,000 shs  $1.02              $510,000.00      $42.00

(1)  Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement also covers such
indeterminate number of additional shares as may hereinafter be offered or
issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions effected without receipt of consideration as provided by
the Plan.

(2)  Based on the closing price reported on the NASDAQ small cap market on May
21, 2003.
                                    PART I

                     INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS

     As permitted by Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), this Registration Statement omits the information specified
in Part I of Form S-8.  The documents containing the information specified in
Part I will be delivered to the selected participants in the plan covered by
this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b).  Such documents are not
being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus
supplements pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act.

                                   PART II

                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 3.      Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     By this reference, the following documents filed or to be filed by Food
Technology Service, Inc. (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated into and made a part of this
Registration Statement:

(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended
        December 31, 2002 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
        Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

    B(1)     Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31,
             2003 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act
             of 1934, as amended.

    B(2)     Proxy Statement dated April 25, 2003 filed in connection with the
             Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders held May 21, 2003.

    B(3)     All documents filed by the Company with the Commission subsequent
             to the date of this Registration Statement under Sections 13(a),
             13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
             amended, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
             which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
             deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
             to be incorporated into and made a part of this Registration
             Statement from the date of filing of such documents with the
             Commission.

    I        The Company's Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the issuance
             of up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value.  The
             holders of the shares of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for
             each share held of record on all matters on which stockholders are
             entitled or permitted to vote.  Such holders may not cumulate votes
             in the election of directors. The holders of Common Stock are
             entitled to receive such dividends as may lawfully be declared by
             the Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefore and
             to share pro rata in any other distribution to the holders of
             Common Stock.  The holders of Common Stock are entitled to share
             ratably in the assets of the Company remaining after the payment of
             liabilities in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding
             up of the affairs of the Company.  There are no preemptive rights,
             conversion rights, redemption or sinking fund provisions or fixed
             dividend rights with respect to Common Stock.  All outstanding
             shares of Common Stock are fully paid and non-assessable, and the
             shares of Common Stock to be issued in this offering, upon payment
             therefore, will be fully paid and non-assessable.

Item 4.      Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5.      Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The validity of the Common Stock issuable under the Company's 2000
Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan will be passed upon for the
Company by Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, Florida.

Item 6.      Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company has authority under applicable provisions of the Florida
Business Corporation Act to indemnify its directors and officers to the extent
provided under such Act. The Company's Bylaws provide indemnification provisions
for the benefit of the Company's directors and officers.  See Item 8, Exhibit
3(b).

Item 7.       Exemption From Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8.       Exhibits.

     The exhibit numbers on the following list correspond to the numbers in the
exhibit table required pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation SB:

Exhibit No.      Description

3(a)       Articles of Incorporation incorporated by reference to Exhibit
           3(a) of the company's Registration Statement (File No. 33-36838-A).

3(b)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective July
           22, 1991, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(b) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3I         Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective June
           17, 1992, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3I of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3(d)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective June
           22, 1994, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(d) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3(e)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective
           December 1, 1997, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(e) of the
           Company's Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered
           effective January 16, 1998.

3(f)       By-Laws incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(b) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 33-36838-A) ordered effective May 9,
           1991.

4(a)       2000 Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan incorporated by
           reference to Exhibit A of the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement,
           (File No. 0-19047) filed with the Commission on May 24, 2000.

5          Opinion of Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.

23(a)      Consent of Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.  See Exhibit 5.

23(b)      Consent of Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

Item 9.    Undertakings.  The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

     (1)   To file, during any period in which offers of sales are being made,
           a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
 Securities Act of 1933;

           (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or event arising after
the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
statement;

(ii) To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
Be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
of the offering.

The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Company's annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.



Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of
1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.



                                 SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Tampa and State of Florida, on the 21st day of May
2003.


                                            FOOD TECHNOLOGY SERVICE, INC.




                                            By: /s/ Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                                               Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                                               Chief Executive Officer and
                                               Chief Financial Officer


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.


Signature                                 Title                  Date

  /s/ Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.            Director               May 21, 2003
Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.


  /s/ Thomas J. Daw                       Director               May 21, 2003
Thomas J. Daw


  /s/ Frank M. Fraser                     Director               May 21, 2003
Frank M. Fraser


  /s/ David Nicholds                      Director               May 21, 2003
David Nicholds


                                          Director

John T. Sinnott, M.D., F.A.C.P.


                                          Director
Michael W. Thomas






                                                                      Exhibit 5




May 22, 2003




Food Technology Service, Inc.
502 Prairie Mine Road
Mulberry, Florida 33860

       Re:Form S-8 Registration

Gentlemen:

We are acting as counsel for Food Technology Service, Inc. a Florida
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the proposed offer by the
Company of up to 500,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Shares")
pursuant to the Company's 2000 Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan
(the "Plan").  Such offering of shares is covered by a prospectus forming a part
of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, being filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.  We are rendering this opinion as of the
date hereof.

We have examined, among other things, the Certificate of Incorporation and
By-laws, as amended, of the Company, the records of corporate proceedings of
the Company which have occurred prior to the date hereof with respect to such
offering, the Registration Statement, the Plan and such other documents and
representations as we deemed necessary in order to render the opinion expressed
herein.

Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Shares have been legally
authorized for issuance and, upon the issuance and delivery thereof in
accordance with the provisions of the Plan, and as set forth in the
Registration Statement, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

We hereby consent to the statements with respect to us in connection with the
filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

                                      Yours truly,

                                      Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.



                                      /s/ William J. Schifino
                                      William J. Schifino
                                      For the Association

WJS/mc


                                                                   Exhibit 23(b)






                CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

As independent certified public accountants, we hereby consent to the
incorporation by reference in this Form S-8 or our report dated March 5, 2003,
included in the Company's Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2002, and
 to all references to our firm included in this Form S-8.


                                               Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

                                               /s/ Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

                                               By:  /s/ John Faircloth
                                                    John Faircloth


Tampa, Florida
May 22, 2003



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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May  29, 2003

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                          ______________________________
                                    FORM S-8

                              REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                       UNDER
                            THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                          ______________________________

                            FOOD TECHNOLOGY SERVICE, INC.
                (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
         FLORIDA                                               59-2618503
(State of Incorporation)                                    (I.R.S. Employer)
                               502 Prairie Mine Road
                              Mulberry, Florida 33860
                       (Address of Principal Executive Offices)

                   2000 INCENTIVE AND NON-STATUTORY STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the plan)

                             Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                           Food Technology Service, Inc.
                             502 Prairie Mine Road
                             Mulberry, Florida 33860
                             Telephone: (941)425-0039
(Name, Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code,
 of Agent for Service)
                           ______________________________
                                    Copy to:
                           WILLIAM J. SCHIFINO, ESQ.
                     Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.
                                   Suite 2600
                              One Tampa City Center
                              Tampa, Florida 33602
                          ______________________________
         Approximate Date of Commencement of Proposed Sale to the Public:
  As soon as practicable after the effective date of the Registration Statement.
                          ______________________________
                          CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed             Proposed
                      Amount         Maximum          Maximum       Amount of
Title of Securities   to be          Offering Price   Aggregate     Registration
to be Registered     Registered(1)   Per Share (2)    Offering Price    Fee
Common Stock,
  $.01 par value      500,000 shs  $1.02              $510,000.00      $42.00

(1)  Pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement also covers such
indeterminate number of additional shares as may hereinafter be offered or
issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or
similar transactions effected without receipt of consideration as provided by
the Plan.

(2)  Based on the closing price reported on the NASDAQ small cap market on May
21, 2003.
                                    PART I

                     INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS

     As permitted by Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), this Registration Statement omits the information specified
in Part I of Form S-8.  The documents containing the information specified in
Part I will be delivered to the selected participants in the plan covered by
this Registration Statement as required by Rule 428(b).  Such documents are not
being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") as
part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus
supplements pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act.

                                   PART II

                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 3.      Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     By this reference, the following documents filed or to be filed by Food
Technology Service, Inc. (the "Company") with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are incorporated into and made a part of this
Registration Statement:

(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended
        December 31, 2002 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
        Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

    B(1)     Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31,
             2003 filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act
             of 1934, as amended.

    B(2)     Proxy Statement dated April 25, 2003 filed in connection with the
             Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders held May 21, 2003.

    B(3)     All documents filed by the Company with the Commission subsequent
             to the date of this Registration Statement under Sections 13(a),
             13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
             amended, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
             which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
             deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
             to be incorporated into and made a part of this Registration
             Statement from the date of filing of such documents with the
             Commission.

    I        The Company's Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the issuance
             of up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value.  The
             holders of the shares of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for
             each share held of record on all matters on which stockholders are
             entitled or permitted to vote.  Such holders may not cumulate votes
             in the election of directors. The holders of Common Stock are
             entitled to receive such dividends as may lawfully be declared by
             the Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefore and
             to share pro rata in any other distribution to the holders of
             Common Stock.  The holders of Common Stock are entitled to share
             ratably in the assets of the Company remaining after the payment of
             liabilities in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding
             up of the affairs of the Company.  There are no preemptive rights,
             conversion rights, redemption or sinking fund provisions or fixed
             dividend rights with respect to Common Stock.  All outstanding
             shares of Common Stock are fully paid and non-assessable, and the
             shares of Common Stock to be issued in this offering, upon payment
             therefore, will be fully paid and non-assessable.

Item 4.      Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5.      Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The validity of the Common Stock issuable under the Company's 2000
Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan will be passed upon for the
Company by Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A., Tampa, Florida.

Item 6.      Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company has authority under applicable provisions of the Florida
Business Corporation Act to indemnify its directors and officers to the extent
provided under such Act. The Company's Bylaws provide indemnification provisions
for the benefit of the Company's directors and officers.  See Item 8, Exhibit
3(b).

Item 7.       Exemption From Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8.       Exhibits.

     The exhibit numbers on the following list correspond to the numbers in the
exhibit table required pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation SB:

Exhibit No.      Description

3(a)       Articles of Incorporation incorporated by reference to Exhibit
           3(a) of the company's Registration Statement (File No. 33-36838-A).

3(b)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective July
           22, 1991, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(b) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3I         Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective June
           17, 1992, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3I of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3(d)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective June
           22, 1994, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(d) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered effective January
           16, 1998.

3(e)       Amendment to the Company's Articles of Incorporation effective
           December 1, 1997, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(e) of the
           Company's Registration Statement (File No. 333-44377) ordered
           effective January 16, 1998.

3(f)       By-Laws incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(b) of the Company's
           Registration Statement (File No. 33-36838-A) ordered effective May 9,
           1991.

4(a)       2000 Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan incorporated by
           reference to Exhibit A of the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement,
           (File No. 0-19047) filed with the Commission on May 24, 2000.

5          Opinion of Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.

23(a)      Consent of Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.  See Exhibit 5.

23(b)      Consent of Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

Item 9.    Undertakings.  The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

     (1)   To file, during any period in which offers of sales are being made,
           a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
 Securities Act of 1933;

           (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or event arising after
the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
statement;

(ii) To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
Be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
of the offering.

The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Company's annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of
1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.

                                 SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Tampa and State of Florida, on the 21st day of May
2003.

                                            FOOD TECHNOLOGY SERVICE, INC.

                                            By: /s/ Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                                               Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.
                                               Chief Executive Officer and
                                               Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration
statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
dates indicated.

Signature                                 Title                  Date

  /s/ Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.            Director               May 21, 2003
Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D.

  /s/ Thomas J. Daw                       Director               May 21, 2003
Thomas J. Daw

  /s/ Frank M. Fraser                     Director               May 21, 2003
Frank M. Fraser

  /s/ David Nicholds                      Director               May 21, 2003
David Nicholds

                                          Director

John T. Sinnott, M.D., F.A.C.P.

                                          Director
Michael W. Thomas

                                                                      Exhibit 5

May 22, 2003

Food Technology Service, Inc.
502 Prairie Mine Road
Mulberry, Florida 33860

       Re:Form S-8 Registration

Gentlemen:

We are acting as counsel for Food Technology Service, Inc. a Florida
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the proposed offer by the
Company of up to 500,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Shares")
pursuant to the Company's 2000 Incentive and Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan
(the "Plan").  Such offering of shares is covered by a prospectus forming a part
of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, being filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.  We are rendering this opinion as of the
date hereof.

We have examined, among other things, the Certificate of Incorporation and
By-laws, as amended, of the Company, the records of corporate proceedings of
the Company which have occurred prior to the date hereof with respect to such
offering, the Registration Statement, the Plan and such other documents and
representations as we deemed necessary in order to render the opinion expressed
herein.

Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Shares have been legally
authorized for issuance and, upon the issuance and delivery thereof in
accordance with the provisions of the Plan, and as set forth in the
Registration Statement, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

We hereby consent to the statements with respect to us in connection with the
filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

                                      Yours truly,

                                      Williams Schifino Mangione & Steady, P.A.

                                      /s/ William J. Schifino
                                      William J. Schifino
                                      For the Association

WJS/mc

                                                                   Exhibit 23(b)

                CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

As independent certified public accountants, we hereby consent to the
incorporation by reference in this Form S-8 or our report dated March 5, 2003,
included in the Company's Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2002, and
 to all references to our firm included in this Form S-8.

                                               Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

                                               /s/ Faircloth & Associates, P.A.

                                               By:  /s/ John Faircloth
                                                    John Faircloth

Tampa, Florida
May 22, 2003

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