KV Pharmaceutical

July 15, 2010, St. Louis, MO. - K-V Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KVa/KVb) announced today that Thomas S. McHugh has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.

Mr. McHugh joined K-V in January 2009 as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller. He served as the company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer from September 2009 until April 2010 and as the Chief Accounting Officer since February 2010. He possesses over 20 years of financial management expertise in the areas of regulatory and government compliance, internal and external financial reporting, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and global finance.

Greg Divis, Interim Chief Executive Officer of K-V, stated, "Tom has played a key leadership role on our finance team at a time when sound management of our financial resources and return to compliance has never been more vital. His assumption of the role of CFO will further strengthen our financial management and help K-V as we continue to prepare for the resumption of normal business operations. We believe that Tom will continue to make a positive impact going forward and look forward to his contributions."

Prior to joining K-V, Mr. McHugh was the Managing Director – Global and Corporate Controller with Bearing Point, Inc. from 2005 to 2008; Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer with Huttig Building Products, Inc. from 2000 to 2005; and Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer with XTRA Corporation from 1993 to 2000. Mr. McHugh began his professional career with PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1990 to 1993, where he earned his CPA.

Mr. McHugh received his B.S. in Finance from Bentley College and an M.S. in Accounting from the Graduate School of Professional Accounting at Northeastern University.

K-V Pharmaceutical Company is a fully-integrated specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets, and acquires technology-distinguished branded prescription pharmaceutical products. The company markets its technology-distinguished products through Ther-Rx Corporation, its branded drug subsidiary.

For further information about K-V Pharmaceutical Company, please visit the company’s corporate Web site at www.kvpharmaceutical.com.

The information in this release may contain various forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PSLRA”) and which may be based on or include assumptions concerning the Company’s operations, future results and prospects. Such statements may be identified by the use of words like “plans”, “expect”, “aim”, “ believe”, “projects”, “anticipates”, “commit”, “intend”, “estimate”, “will”, “should”, “could” and other expressions that indicate future events and trends.

All statements that address expectations or projections about the future, including without limitation, statements about the numbers of preterm births for which Gestiva may be prescribed, its safety profile and side effects profile, and the Company’s strategy for growth, product development, product launches, regulatory approvals, market position, acquisitions, revenues, expenditures and other financial results, are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risk and uncertainties. In connection with the “safe harbor” provisions, the Company provides the following cautionary statements identifying important economic, political and technology factors, which among others, could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those set forth or implied by the forward-looking statements and related assumptions. Such factors include (but are not limited to) the following:

(2) difficulties and uncertainties with respect to obtaining additional capital, as more fully described in Part I, Item 2 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and Capital Resources” in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2009 (the third quarter of the Company’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 (the “Form 10-Q”));

(3) the decisions the Company makes in order to maintain and increase our limited cash and financial resources may result in significant charges for impairment of inventory, property and equipment and intangible and other long-lived assets;

(5) the consent decree between the Company and the FDA and the Company’s suspension of the production and shipment of all of the products that it manufactures and the related nationwide recall affecting all of the products that it manufactures, as well as the related material adverse effect on its revenue, assets and liquidity and capital resources, as more fully described in Part I, Item 2 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Background – Discontinuation of Manufacturing and Distribution; Product Recalls; and the FDA Consent Decree” in the Form 10-Q;

(6) the possibility of further reducing the Company’s operations, including further reductions of its employee base and significantly curtailing some or all of its efforts to meet the consent decree’s requirements and return its approved products to market in order to maintain and attempt to increase its limited cash and financial resources, and related costs and accounting charges from taking such actions;

(7) the plea agreement between the Company and the U.S. Department of Justice and the Company’s obligations therewith, as well as the related material adverse effect, if any, on its revenue, assets and liquidity and capital resources, as more fully described in Note 20 – “Subsequent Events” of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-Q;

(4) based on our cash balance and estimates of our operating expenditures, our existing cash and financial resources will not be sufficient to fund our operations beyond the quarter ending September 30, 2010, unless we are able to raise additional capital by selling assets or through external financing; (8) changes in the current and future business environment, including interest rates and capital and consumer spending;

(10) the possibility of not obtaining FDA approvals or delay in obtaining FDA approvals, including with respect to Gestiva™, as well as the number of preterm births for which Gestiva™ may be prescribed, its safety profile and side effects profile;

(11) acceptance of and demand for the Company’s new pharmaceutical products or current products upon their return to the marketplace;

(12) the introduction and impact of competitive products and pricing, including as a result of so-called authorized generic drugs;

(15) the availability of raw materials and/or products manufactured for the Company under contract manufacturing agreements with third parties;

(16) the regulatory environment, including regulatory agency and judicial actions and changes in applicable laws or regulations;

(20) the impact of competitive response to the Company’s sales, marketing and strategic efforts, including introduction or potential introduction of generic or competing products against products sold by the Company and its subsidiaries;

(21) risks that the Company may not ultimately prevail in litigation, including product liability lawsuits and challenges to its intellectual property rights by actual or potential competitors or to its ability to market generic products due to brand company patents and challenges to other companies’ introduction or potential introduction of generic or competing products by third parties against products sold by the Company or its subsidiaries including without limitation the litigation and claims referred to in Note 18 – “Commitments and Contingencies” of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-Q;

(22) the possibility that our current estimates of the financial effect of certain announced product recalls could prove to be incorrect;

(24) failure to supply claims by certain of the Company’s customers, including CVS Pharmacy, Inc., that, despite the formal discontinuation action by the Company of its products, the Company should compensate such customers for any additional costs they allegedly incurred for procuring products the Company did not supply;

(25) the satisfaction or waiver of the terms and conditions for the acquisition of the full U.S. and worldwide rights to Gestiva™ set forth in the previously disclosed Gestiva™ acquisition agreement, as amended;

(26) the series of putative class action lawsuits alleging violations of the federal securities laws by the Company and certain individuals, as more fully described in Note 18 – “Commitments and Contingencies – Litigation and Governmental Inquiries” of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-Q;

(27) the possibility that insurance proceeds are insufficient to cover potential losses that may arise from litigation, including with respect to product liability, failure to supply or securities litigation;

(28) the informal inquiry initiated by the SEC and any related or additional government investigation or enforcement proceedings as more fully described in Note 18 – “Commitments and Contingencies – Litigation and Government Inquiries, of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements” in the Form 10-Q;

(29) the possibility that the pending investigation by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services into potential false claims under the Title 42 of the U.S. Code as more fully described in Note 18 – “Commitments and Contingencies – Litigation and Government Inquiries” of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-Q could result in significant civil fines or penalties, including exclusion from participation in federal healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid;

(30) delays in returning, or failure to return, certain or many of the Company’s approved products to the market, including loss of market share as a result of the suspension of shipments, and related costs;

(32) the possibility that default on one type or class of the Company’s indebtedness could result in cross default under, and the acceleration of, its other indebtedness;

(33) the risks that present or future changes in the Board of Directors or management may lead to an acceleration of the Company’s bonds or to adverse actions by government agencies or our auditors;

(34) if a director of our company, or a shareholder with an ownership interest in our company of 5% or more, is excluded from participating in federal or state health care programs, then HHS may use its discretionary authority to also exclude our company from participation in federal healthcare programs;

(35) the risk that the failure to comply with the quantitative listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange, including with respect to minimum share price and public float, could result in delisting of our shares on the New York Stock Exchange, which would harm the market price of the Company’s Class A common stock and Class B common stock;

(36) the risk that the Company will be unable to engage a successor independent registered public accounting firm promptly or be unable to complete the review of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2010 promptly, which would impact the Company’s compliance with New York Stock Exchange listing standards, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;

This discussion is not exhaustive, but is designed to highlight important factors that may impact the Company’s forwardlooking statements.

Because the factors referred to above, as well as the statements included elsewhere in this press release, could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by the Company or on the Company’s behalf, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements in this “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and the risk factors that are included under Part I, Item 1A— “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 and Part II, Item 1A—“Risk Factors” in the Form 10-Q, as supplemented by the Company’s subsequent SEC filings.

Further, any forwardlooking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and the Company is under no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict which factors will arise, when they will arise and/or their effects. In addition, the Company cannot assess the impact of each factor on its future business or financial condition or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.