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                                                           Registration No.
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, DC  20549


                                    FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                            IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

                DELAWARE                                01-0393723
     (State or Other Jurisdiction of                 (I.R.S. Employer
     Incorporation or Organization)                Identification No.)


    ONE IDEXX DRIVE, WESTBROOK, MAINE                     04092
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                (Zip Code)
                            _________________________


                           2000 DIRECTOR OPTION PLAN
                           (Full Title of the Plan)


                             CONAN R. DEADY, ESQ.
                                GENERAL COUNSEL
                           IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
                                ONE IDEXX DRIVE
                            WESTBROOK, MAINE 04092
                    (Name and Address of Agent For Service)

                                 (207) 856-0300
         (Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

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                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                Proposed        Proposed
Title of           Amount       Maximum         Maximum          Amount of
Securities         to be        Offering Price  Aggregate        Registration
to be Registered   Registered   Per Share       Offering Price   Fee
----------------   ----------   ---------       --------------   ---

Common Stock,        200,000    $23.563 (1)     $4,712,600 (1)   $1,428.06
$.10 par value       shares
 ______________________________________________________________________________
(1)    Estimated  solely  for the purpose of calculating the  registration  fee,
based  upon  the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock  on  the
Nasdaq  National  Market on July 31, 2000, in accordance with Rules  457(c)  and
457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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PART II.   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

   The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") (File No. 0-19271), are incorporated in this Registration
Statement by reference:

     (1)   The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to Section 13(a)
     or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange
     Act"), or the latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the
     Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), that contains
     audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for
     which such statements have been filed;

     (2)   All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
     the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document
     referred to in (1) above; and

     (3)   The description of the common stock, $.10 par value per share, of the
     Registrant (the "Common Stock") contained in a registration statement filed
     under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
     purpose of updating such description.

   All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-
effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents.


ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

     Not applicable.


ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

   The validity of the Common Stock being registered pursuant to this
Registration Statement will be passed upon for the Registrant by its General
Counsel, Conan R. Deady.  As of the date of this Registration Statement, Mr.
Deady has (i) beneficial ownership of 250 shares of the Registrant's Common
Stock and (ii) the right to receive up to 72,975 shares of the Registrant's
Common Stock upon the exercise of stock options granted to him by the
Registrant, which stock options are or (in periodic installments) will become
exercisable through February 4, 2005.

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ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

   Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"GCL"), as amended, gives Delaware corporations the power to indemnify each of
their present and former directors or officers under certain circumstances, if
such person acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.

   Article Ninth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that
no director of the Registrant shall be liable for any breach of fiduciary duty,
except to the extent that the GCL prohibits the limitation of liability of
directors for breach of fiduciary duty.

   Article Thirteenth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides
that a director or officer of the Registrant (a) shall be indemnified by the
Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any litigation or
other legal proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the
Registrant) brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or
officer of the Registrant if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
Registrant and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful and (b) shall be
indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees)
and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any action by or in
the right of the Registrant brought against him by virtue of his position as a
director or officer of the Registrant if he acted in good faith and in a manner
he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
Registrant, except that no indemnification shall be made with respect to any
matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the
Registrant, unless a court determines that, despite such adjudication but in
view of all of the circumstances, he is entitled to indemnification of such
expenses.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that a director or
officer has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, including, without
limitation, the dismissal of an action without prejudice, he is required to be
indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees)
incurred in connection therewith.  Expenses shall be advanced to a director or
officer at his request, provided that he undertakes to repay the amount advanced
if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification for
such expenses.

   Indemnification is required to be made unless the Registrant determines that
the applicable standard of conduct required for indemnification has not been
met.  In the event of a determination by the Registrant that the director or
officer did not meet the applicable standard of conduct required for
indemnification, or if the Registrant fails to make an indemnification payment
within 60 days after such payment is claimed by such person, such person is
permitted to petition the court to make an independent determination as to
whether such person is entitled to indemnification.  As a condition precedent to
the right of indemnification, the director or officer must give the Registrant
notice of the action for which indemnity is sought, and the Registrant has the
right to participate in such action or assume the defense thereof.
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   Article Thirteenth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation further
provides that the indemnification provided therein is not exclusive, and
provides that in the event that the GCL is amended to expand the indemnification
permitted to directors or officers, the Registrant must indemnify those persons
to the fullest extent permitted by such law as so amended.


ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.


     Not applicable.


ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

   The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits hereto is incorporated
herein by reference.


ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

A.    The Registrant hereby undertakes:

      (1)   To file, during any period in which offers or 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;

            (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events 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;

            (iii)   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 (i) and (ii) do not apply if the Registration
Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement.

      (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, 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.
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      (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.

B.    The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and,
where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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 in the initial bona fide offering thereof.

C.    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
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 Registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 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 Registrant 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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                                  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 Westbrook, State of Maine on this 7th day of August,
2000.

                                              IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.



                                              By: /s/ David E. Shaw
                                              ---------------------
                                              David E. Shaw
                                              President, Chief Executive
                                              Officer and Chairman of the
                                              Board of Directors

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

   We, the undersigned officers and directors of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.,
hereby severally constitute David E. Shaw and Conan R. Deady, and each of them
singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them
singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the
Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent
amendments to said Registration Statement, and generally to do all such things
in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. to comply with all requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may
be signed by said attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and
any and all amendments thereto.

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                                   SIGNATURES

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in their
capacities and on the date indicated.

        SIGNATURE                   TITLE               DATE
        ---------                   -----               ----

/s/ David E. Shaw          President, Chief         May 17, 2000
-------------------------  Executive Officer
David E. Shaw              and Chairman of the
                           Board of Directors

/s/ Merilee Raines         Vice President, Finance  May 17, 2000
-------------------------  and Treasurer (Principal
Merilee Raines             Financial and Accounting
                           Officer)

/s/ Erwin F. Workman, Jr.  Executive Vice           May 17, 2000
-------------------------  President,Chief
Erwin F. Workman, Jr.      Scientific Officer and
                           Director

/s/ Thomas Craig           Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Thomas Craig

/s/ Mary L. Good           Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Mary L. Good

/s/ John R. Hesse          Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
John R. Hesse

/s/ James L. Moody         Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
James L. Moody, Jr.

/s/ Kenneth Paigen         Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Kenneth Paigen

/s/ William Pounds         Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
William F. Pounds

/s/ Gabriel Schmergel      Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Gabriel Schmergel

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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
                                  -------------


Exhibit
Number       Description                                      Page
------       -----------                                      ----

  4.1(1)     Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
             amended, of the Registrant                       ---
  4.2(2)     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant   ---

  4.3(3)     Specimen Certificate of Common Stock of the
             Registrant                                       ---

  4.4(4)     Rights Agreement, dated as of December 17,
             1996, between the Registrant and The First
             National Bank of Boston, as Rights Agent,
             which includes as Exhibit A the Form of
             Certificate of Designations, as Exhibit B the
             Form of Rights Certificate, and as Exhibit C
             the Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred
             Stock                                            ---

  4.5(5)     Amendment No. 1 to Rights Agreement as of July
             22, 1999, between the Registrant and
             BankBoston, N.A. (formerly known as The First
             National Bank of Boston)                         ---

    5.1      Opinion of Conan R. Deady, General Counsel to
             the Registrant                                    9
   23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP                    10

   23.2      Consent of Conan R. Deady (included in Exhibit
             5.1)                                              9
   24.1      Power of Attorney (included on the signature
             page of this Registration Statement)              6
_______________
(1) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K dated March 31, 1997 (File No. 0-19271).

(2) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K dated March 29, 2000 (File No. 0-19271).

(3) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-40447).

(4) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated December 24, 1996 (File No. 0-19271).

(5) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A 12G/A dated July 30, 1999 (File No. 0-19271).
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                                                           Registration No.
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, DC  20549

                                    FORM S-8

                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

                DELAWARE                                01-0393723
     (State or Other Jurisdiction of                 (I.R.S. Employer
     Incorporation or Organization)                Identification No.)

    ONE IDEXX DRIVE, WESTBROOK, MAINE                     04092
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                (Zip Code)
                            _________________________

                           2000 DIRECTOR OPTION PLAN
                           (Full Title of the Plan)

                             CONAN R. DEADY, ESQ.
                                GENERAL COUNSEL
                           IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
                                ONE IDEXX DRIVE
                            WESTBROOK, MAINE 04092
                    (Name and Address of Agent For Service)

                                 (207) 856-0300
         (Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

==============================================================================
                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                Proposed        Proposed
Title of           Amount       Maximum         Maximum          Amount of
Securities         to be        Offering Price  Aggregate        Registration
to be Registered   Registered   Per Share       Offering Price   Fee
----------------   ----------   ---------       --------------   ---

Common Stock,        200,000    $23.563 (1)     $4,712,600 (1)   $1,428.06
$.10 par value       shares
 ______________________________________________________________________________
(1)    Estimated  solely  for the purpose of calculating the  registration  fee,
based  upon  the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock  on  the
Nasdaq  National  Market on July 31, 2000, in accordance with Rules  457(c)  and
457(h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
==============================================================================
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PART II.   INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

   The following documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") (File No. 0-19271), are incorporated in this Registration
Statement by reference:

     (1)   The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to Section 13(a)
     or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange
     Act"), or the latest prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the
     Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), that contains
     audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year for
     which such statements have been filed;

     (2)   All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
     the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document
     referred to in (1) above; and

     (3)   The description of the common stock, $.10 par value per share, of the
     Registrant (the "Common Stock") contained in a registration statement filed
     under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
     purpose of updating such description.

   All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-
effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

   The validity of the Common Stock being registered pursuant to this
Registration Statement will be passed upon for the Registrant by its General
Counsel, Conan R. Deady.  As of the date of this Registration Statement, Mr.
Deady has (i) beneficial ownership of 250 shares of the Registrant's Common
Stock and (ii) the right to receive up to 72,975 shares of the Registrant's
Common Stock upon the exercise of stock options granted to him by the
Registrant, which stock options are or (in periodic installments) will become
exercisable through February 4, 2005.
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ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

   Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"GCL"), as amended, gives Delaware corporations the power to indemnify each of
their present and former directors or officers under certain circumstances, if
such person acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.

   Article Ninth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides that
no director of the Registrant shall be liable for any breach of fiduciary duty,
except to the extent that the GCL prohibits the limitation of liability of
directors for breach of fiduciary duty.

   Article Thirteenth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation provides
that a director or officer of the Registrant (a) shall be indemnified by the
Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any litigation or
other legal proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the
Registrant) brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or
officer of the Registrant if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
Registrant and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful and (b) shall be
indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees)
and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with any action by or in
the right of the Registrant brought against him by virtue of his position as a
director or officer of the Registrant if he acted in good faith and in a manner
he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
Registrant, except that no indemnification shall be made with respect to any
matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the
Registrant, unless a court determines that, despite such adjudication but in
view of all of the circumstances, he is entitled to indemnification of such
expenses.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that a director or
officer has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, including, without
limitation, the dismissal of an action without prejudice, he is required to be
indemnified by the Registrant against all expenses (including attorneys' fees)
incurred in connection therewith.  Expenses shall be advanced to a director or
officer at his request, provided that he undertakes to repay the amount advanced
if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification for
such expenses.

   Indemnification is required to be made unless the Registrant determines that
the applicable standard of conduct required for indemnification has not been
met.  In the event of a determination by the Registrant that the director or
officer did not meet the applicable standard of conduct required for
indemnification, or if the Registrant fails to make an indemnification payment
within 60 days after such payment is claimed by such person, such person is
permitted to petition the court to make an independent determination as to
whether such person is entitled to indemnification.  As a condition precedent to
the right of indemnification, the director or officer must give the Registrant
notice of the action for which indemnity is sought, and the Registrant has the
right to participate in such action or assume the defense thereof.
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   Article Thirteenth of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation further
provides that the indemnification provided therein is not exclusive, and
provides that in the event that the GCL is amended to expand the indemnification
permitted to directors or officers, the Registrant must indemnify those persons
to the fullest extent permitted by such law as so amended.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

   The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits hereto is incorporated
herein by reference.

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

A.    The Registrant hereby undertakes:

      (1)   To file, during any period in which offers or 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;

            (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events 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;

            (iii)   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 (i) and (ii) do not apply if the Registration
Statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be
included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d)
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement.

      (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, 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.
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      (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.

B.    The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and,
where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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 in the initial bona fide offering thereof.

C.    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
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 Registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant 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 Registrant 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 Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
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                                  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 Westbrook, State of Maine on this 7th day of August,
2000.

                                              IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.

                                              By: /s/ David E. Shaw
                                              ---------------------
                                              David E. Shaw
                                              President, Chief Executive
                                              Officer and Chairman of the
                                              Board of Directors

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

   We, the undersigned officers and directors of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.,
hereby severally constitute David E. Shaw and Conan R. Deady, and each of them
singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them
singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the
Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent
amendments to said Registration Statement, and generally to do all such things
in our names and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. to comply with all requirements of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may
be signed by said attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and
any and all amendments thereto.
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                                   SIGNATURES

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in their
capacities and on the date indicated.

        SIGNATURE                   TITLE               DATE
        ---------                   -----               ----

/s/ David E. Shaw          President, Chief         May 17, 2000
-------------------------  Executive Officer
David E. Shaw              and Chairman of the
                           Board of Directors

/s/ Merilee Raines         Vice President, Finance  May 17, 2000
-------------------------  and Treasurer (Principal
Merilee Raines             Financial and Accounting
                           Officer)

/s/ Erwin F. Workman, Jr.  Executive Vice           May 17, 2000
-------------------------  President,Chief
Erwin F. Workman, Jr.      Scientific Officer and
                           Director

/s/ Thomas Craig           Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Thomas Craig

/s/ Mary L. Good           Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
Mary L. Good

/s/ John R. Hesse          Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
John R. Hesse

/s/ James L. Moody         Director                 May 17, 2000
-------------------------
James L. Moody, Jr.

/s/ Kenneth Paigen         Director                 May 17, 2000
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Kenneth Paigen

/s/ William Pounds         Director                 May 17, 2000
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William F. Pounds

/s/ Gabriel Schmergel      Director                 May 17, 2000
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Gabriel Schmergel
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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit
Number       Description                                      Page
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  4.1(1)     Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
             amended, of the Registrant                       ---
  4.2(2)     Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant   ---

  4.3(3)     Specimen Certificate of Common Stock of the
             Registrant                                       ---

  4.4(4)     Rights Agreement, dated as of December 17,
             1996, between the Registrant and The First
             National Bank of Boston, as Rights Agent,
             which includes as Exhibit A the Form of
             Certificate of Designations, as Exhibit B the
             Form of Rights Certificate, and as Exhibit C
             the Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred
             Stock                                            ---

  4.5(5)     Amendment No. 1 to Rights Agreement as of July
             22, 1999, between the Registrant and
             BankBoston, N.A. (formerly known as The First
             National Bank of Boston)                         ---

    5.1      Opinion of Conan R. Deady, General Counsel to
             the Registrant                                    9
   23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP                    10

   23.2      Consent of Conan R. Deady (included in Exhibit
             5.1)                                              9
   24.1      Power of Attorney (included on the signature
             page of this Registration Statement)              6
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(1) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K dated March 31, 1997 (File No. 0-19271).

(2) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's Annual
Report on Form 10-K dated March 29, 2000 (File No. 0-19271).

(3) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-40447).

(4) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated December 24, 1996 (File No. 0-19271).

(5) Incorporated herein by reference to the Exhibits to the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A 12G/A dated July 30, 1999 (File No. 0-19271).