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Sandra Eskin

Sandra Eskin directs Pew’s work on food safety. The campaign seeks to reduce health risks from foodborne pathogens by working with the federal government, industry, and other stakeholders to improve food safety.

The State of Food Safety

By: - April 7, 2016

© 2016 The Pew Charitable Trusts PulseNet is a surveillance system that uses molecular “fingerprinting” to identify links between foodborne illnesses across states. The CDC launched PulseNet in 1996. Sandra Eskin directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work on food safety. Twenty years ago, four children died and more than 700 people were sickened in a […]