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metabolix: nature's plastic
metabolix: nature's plastic

May 7, 2007

Cambridge, Massachusetts. Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), a company developing and commercializing environmentally sustainable and totally biodegradable Mirel bioplastic, today announced that the Company's annual meeting of stockholders will be held on May 17, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston located at 40 Edwin Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA. The record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting has been set as March 23, 2007.

About Metabolix
Founded in 1992, Metabolix, Inc. is an innovation driven bioscience company providing clean, sustainable solutions for the world's needs for plastics, fuels, and chemicals. The Company is taking a systems approach, from gene to end product, to integrate sophisticated biotechnology with advanced industrial practice, and is now developing and commercializing environmentally sustainable and totally biodegradable Mirel™ bioplastics as a clean alternative to petroleum-based plastics. In addition to its microbial fermentation platform for producing Mirel™ bioplastics, Metabolix is also developing a proprietary platform technology for co-producing, in biomass energy crops such as switchgrass, bioplastics and biomass for biofuels such as ethanol and for chemical products. For more information, please visit www.metabolix.com. (MBLX-G)

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