SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PURE Bioscience (NASDAQ:PURE), creator of the patented silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) antimicrobial, announced today the inaugural members of its newly formed Advisory Panel: Tom Ridge, first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former Governor of Pennsylvania; Scott M. Russell, Ph.D., Professor of Poultry Processing and Products Microbiology, Poultry Science Department of the University of Georgia; and Tommy G. Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and former four-term Governor of Wisconsin. Thompson recently stepped down from the PURE Board and joined the Advisory Panel.