Rose Shilling helps ensure Food Engineering Magazine is ready to print each month as managing editor. She writes feature stories on a variety of topics and tracks the food packaging industry. A journalist with an editing background at news services and newspapers, she also has driven editorial projects in health care and higher education.

Food Packaging

New single-serve tuna package has built-in fork

Rose Shilling

April 19, 2019

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Chicken of the Sea's new flavored tuna comes in a single-serve, recyclable plastic cup with a foldable fork tucked under an outer lid.

Food Packaging

Barrier blocks more air in plastic containers

Rose Shilling

April 17, 2019

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Ring Container Technologies has a new barrier for plastic containers that it says keeps more oxygen away from food and uses less material than competitors.

Food Packaging

Recyclable meat trays offer display and sustainable packaging benefits

Rose Shilling

April 17, 2019

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Kloeckner Pentaplast has new ideas for how meat companies can display products in stores and offer more sustainable packaging.

Food Packaging

Salad dressing shrink sleeve labels offer tamper resistance

Rose Shilling

April 17, 2019

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Briannas Fine Salad Dressings have new shrink-sleeve labels to improve tamper resistance and ease cleanup for the consumer.

Food Safety

JBS Plainwell recalls ground beef for green plastic pieces

Meat went to stores in Michigan and Wisconsin

Rose Shilling

April 9, 2019

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JBS Plainwell recalled about 43,000 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with pieces of hard plastic.

Food Safety

California-grown avocados recalled because listeria found at packing site

Henry Avocado issued recall as a caution after routine inspection

Rose Shilling

March 25, 2019

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Henry Avocado Corporation recalled whole avocados sold in bulk through retailers for possible listeria contamination after positive environmental inspection tests at a packing facility.

Food Safety

Tyson Foods recalls frozen chicken strips with possible metal pieces

Two consumers reported foreign matter to FSIS

Rose Shilling

March 22, 2019

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Tyson Foods recalled about 70,000 pounds of breaded chicken strips with possible metal pieces after complaints to the USDA from two people about foreign matter.

Green Series

A sustainable bottom line: Environmentally friendly upgrades must save money

Rose Shilling

March 22, 2019

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Food processors and distributors and pet food manufacturers view sustainable projects as a great idea—if they save money.

CANNABIS PRODUCTS - MARCH 2019

Selecting the right child-resistant packaging for legal cannabis edibles

Cannabis edibles makers are searching for new closures and styles for child-resistant packaging.

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

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Because child-resistant packaging requirements vary in states where cannabis is legal, many companies infusing food and drinks choose containers with the best protection—required or not—so they can sell the same packages everywhere.

Packaging

How it's made: recycled fiber in Starbucks cups

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

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Figuring out how to recycle paper into a reusable fiber that is FDA approved to touch food wasn't easy.

Reducing Mechanical Wear in Food Processing while Increasing Productivity

ON DEMAND: Food processing manufacturers have an increasing number of challenges, whether they are processing vegetables and fruit, filling pastries and baked goods, or cutting meat. This includes keeping up with sanitation, safety and maintenance requirements while maintaining throughput and production quality.

Water Management Best Practices

Effective management of water is becoming increasingly critical for food and beverage processors as the cost for incoming water increases and water supply becomes limited or restricted. Join Hixson Architecture & Engineering for our next Food Plant of the Future webinar, Water Management Best Practices, in which we share the strategies, technologies, and processes for reducing a plant’s overall water footprint.

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Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development

Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development is the first book to comprehensively address the issues of graphics design and visual concepts, from a systematic, scientific viewpoint, yet with business applications in mind.

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Food Engineering

2019 April

In the April issue of Food Engineering, we take an in-depth look at Valley Milk's milk powder processing plant in Turlock, Calif., which was selected as FE's 2019 Plant of the Year.

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