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.

Packaging

Bostik's anti-fog coatings keep lids clear

Rose Shilling

December 19, 2018

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Bostik adhesives developed anti-fog coatings for flexible film lids that stop water droplets from forming and extend freshness of refrigerated foods with moisture, such as produce.

Packaging

Mondi delivers natural paper look consumers want

Rose Shilling

December 17, 2018

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A base of brown paper gives a natural character to trays and other food containers using Mondi’s new formable packaging material.

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Use these tips for cleaning all parts of a food factory

Rose Shilling

December 14, 2018

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We've gathered experts' best practice tips for how to make those jobs easier and avoid common problems. And they shared insights about the latest in cleaning technology and improvements to scientific methods for validating sanitation.

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Food packaging innovations found at Pack Expo

Sample some recent innovations stretching packaging in new directions

Rose Shilling

December 14, 2018

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The minds behind food packaging innovations offered creations this year that solved tricky storage situations, cut use of plastics, paper and other resources, and showcased products with stunning design.

Packaging

Nestlé Waters sets goal of 25 percent rPET in three years

Increasing recycled plastic packaging is part of broader sustainability plan to reuse water bottles in a circular economy

Rose Shilling

December 10, 2018

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Nestlé Waters North America will use 25 percent recycled plastic for packaging in U.S. products by 2021, trying to increase its role in addressing the country’s recycling challenges.

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Split Nutrition puts PB&J in side-by-side pack

Rose Shilling

November 30, 2018

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A new product called Split puts together the classic combo of peanut butter and jelly (or almond butter and preserves) in a single snack pack that separates the two in squeezable compartments.

Packaging

TemperPack has new cold chain products for customer shipments

Rose Shilling

November 26, 2018

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TemperPack is offering two new environmentally friendly solutions to keep food shipments cold on the way to people's homes.

Food Safety

JBS USA recalls more ground beef that may be contaminated

Second recall this fall is due to possible E. coli in 100,000 pounds of Swift Beef

Rose Shilling

November 19, 2018

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JBS USA subsidiary Swift Beef is recalling nearly 100,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the second recall for JBS in two months.

Food Safety

FSMA: From Education to Enforcement

Your FSMA safety plan is written. Now learn about common implementation difficulties, just as the FDA begins to ask for compliance proof

Rose Shilling

November 19, 2018

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New challenges are coming into focus as food companies move from writing their FSMA safety plans to using them day-to-day to monitor for hazards.

Packaging

Survey: Millennials want something different in packaging

Younger adults prefer unique, easy-to-find packages

Rose Shilling

November 19, 2018

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Millennials prefer shopping online more than other age groups, and a new survey finds that what they like about product packaging differs too.

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Bostik's anti-fog coatings keep lids clear

Mondi delivers natural paper look consumers want

Use these tips for cleaning all parts of a food factory

Food packaging innovations found at Pack Expo

Nestlé Waters sets goal of 25 percent rPET in three years

Split Nutrition puts PB&J in side-by-side pack

TemperPack has new cold chain products for customer shipments

JBS USA recalls more ground beef that may be contaminated

FSMA: From Education to Enforcement

Survey: Millennials want something different in packaging

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