Forest Laboratories, Inc. (the "Company") is participating in the Securities Exchange Commission's XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) voluntary filing program. In connection with this program, the Company has attached as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K the following materials from its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2008, filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on August 8, 2008, formatted in XBRL, excluding the notes to the financial statements: (i) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, and (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the financial information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Company. The purpose of submitting these XBRL formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific references in such filing.

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are furnished herewith:

Exhibit No.    Exhibit Description
    100        The following financial statements from Forest Laboratories, Inc's
               Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30,
               2008, filed on August 8, 2008, formatted in XBRL (eXtensive
               Business Reporting Language), excluding notes to the financial
               statements: (i) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii)
               Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) Condensed
               Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, and (iv)
               Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.