PURE Bioscience, Inc. announced that is has formed a Scientific Advisory Board and that it will be led by James L. Marsden, Ph.D., Emeritus Distinguished Professor–Food Safety and Security, Kansas State University. The mission of the Board is to leverage PURE's SDC-based technologies, PURE® Hard Surface and PURE Control®, to help ensure a safer food supply. The Advisory Board will include scientists with expertise in food science, food safety, food service and food processing, and will assist PURE as the Company continues to develop applications for, and commercialize, its patented EPA- and FDA-approved SDC antimicrobial as a non-toxic.

SDC has proven superior in killing pathogens causing food-borne illness, including Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria and Norovirus.