SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



                                    FORM 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



         Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): March 5, 1997



                         AMERICAN BIO MEDICA CORPORATION
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


          New York                    0-28666               14-1702188
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 (State or Other Jurisdiction       (Commission            (IRS Employer
      of Incorporation)             File Number)           Identification
                                                               Number)


                   102 Simons Road Ancramdale, New York 12503
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               (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)


       Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (800) 227-1243


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     Item 5. Other Events.

     The Board of  Directors  of the  Registrant  has  appointed  two  "outside"
directors to fill  vacancies in the Board of  Directors.  The new members of the
Board shall serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders  and until their
successors are elected and qualify.

     John F.  Murray has served as Chief  Financial  Officer of Federal  Supply,
Inc.,  Pompano Beach,  Florida since April,  1994. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Murray
served as Controller for Bio Therapeutics, Inc., Woodbridge, New Jersey. He also
was Controller of Shortline, a group of transportation  companies,  from 1982 to
1988 and,  from 1974 to 1982,  of Kleber  tire & Rubber  Corp.  Mr.  Murray  was
Director of Accounting for Western Union Telegraph Company from 1972 to 1974 and
Senior  Accountant  for S.D.  Leidesdorf  & Co (now Ernst & Young)  from 1969 to
1992.  Mr. Murray  received his BBA in Accounting  from the Baruch School of the
City University of New York in 1968 and became a Certified Public  Accountant in
the State of New York in 1974.

     Jasper R.  Clay,  Jr.  (64 years  old)  served  as a United  States  Parole
Commissioner  from 1984 to 1996 and from 1991 to 1996, as  Vice-Chairman  of the
United States Parole  Commission and Chairman of the National  Appeals Board. He
served as final  authority  for all  decisions  relating to parole,  revocation,
imposition or  modification  of parole  conditions,  or denial of discharge from
supervision.  From  1976  to  1984,  Mr.  Clay  was  State  of  Maryland  Parole
Commissioner  and from 1969 to 1976, he was an Associate  Member of the State of
Maryland Board of Parole. Mr. Clay served as an Associate Member of the State of
Maryland Board of Parole from 1969 to 1976, District Supervisor of the Baltimore
City District Office in 1968, Staff  Specialist-Training and Development for the
Maryland  Division  of  Parole  and  Probation  from  1966 to 1968,  Parole  and
Probation Agent I and II, Baltimore District, Office of the Maryland Division of
Parole and Probation  from 1958 to 1966 and as a Psychiatric  Aide at the Spring
Grove State Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He received an Honorable  Discharge from
the United States Army Infrantry as a First  Lieutenant in 1956. He is active in
a number of  professional  organizations  including  the  American  Correctional
Association  (where he is  presently  a member  of the  Awards  Committee),  the
Association  of  Paroling  Authorities  International  (where  he  serves  as an
officer) and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency.

     He is a member  of the  American  Correctional  Association,  the  National
Council of Crime and  Delinquency  and the  Association of Paroling  Authorities
International.  Mr.  Clay  earned  his B. A. in  Psychology  from  Morgan  State
University in 1954 and attended the graduate  school at Loyola  College in areas
such as Guidance, Counseling and Psychology..

 

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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



                                AMERICAN BIO MEDICA CORPORATION
                                          (Registrant)

                                By: s/Stan Cipkowski
                                    Stan Cipkowski,
                                     President and Principal
                                     Executive Officer and
                                     Principal Financial Officer

     Dated: March 15, 1997