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

New shrink film for Coca-Cola Co. sparkling water uses recycled plastic

Packaging with PCR resin performs similarly to virgin plastics

Rose Shilling

November 11, 2020

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AHA Sparkling Water is using new shrink film with recycled plastic for some warehouse club packages.

Packaging

Mars uses recycled plastic in some pet packaging

The food-grade plastic helps the pet food leader meet sustainability goals

Rose Shilling

November 10, 2020

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Mars Inc. is including recycled plastic in its pet food packaging in Europe and plans to expand the pilot to other brands.

How two industry leaders invest to save the water supply as scarcity grows

Kraft Heinz and Nestlé Waters North America sustainability leaders say protection of the lifeblood resource will require looking outside the factory walls

Rose Shilling

October 28, 2020

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With water stress a growing concern, food and beverage companies invest to cut usage, increasingly looking outside their factory walls to conserve a lifeblood resource for the industry.

Packaging

Bacardi will use biodegradable spirits bottles for plastic-free goal

The latest alternative to standard plastic beverage bottles decomposes in 18 months

Rose Shilling

October 27, 2020

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Spirits maker Bacardi will bottle all brands in a biodegradable material from plant-based oils, entering the race to replace petroleum-based plastic drink bottles.

Packaging

Water bottles from wood materials? Poland Spring explores alternatives

Nestlé Waters North America brand works with University of Maine on bio-based materials to reduce packaging impact on environment

Rose Shilling

October 19, 2020

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Poland Spring bottled water and the University of Maine are trying to develop new packaging materials from trees grown in the state.

Packaging

Here’s a recap of companies addressing race on food packaging

Updated packaging designs are starting to trickle out this fall, including new names for Eskimo Pies and Uncle Ben’s rice

Rose Shilling

October 14, 2020

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Food manufacturers, including Quaker Oats, Mars and Conagra, are updating packaging and branding to eliminate images or names viewed as racially insensitive.

Packaging

Kraft Heinz wants European ketchup bottles to be recyclable as new food packaging

Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottles switching to single-material PET for circular economy goal

Rose Shilling

October 14, 2020

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Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottles in Europe will soon be made of one type of plastic so they can be recycled into food-grade PET.

Food Safety

Meijer recalls cantaloupe for possible salmonella contamination

Midwest-centered recall resulted from sampling investigation by Michigan agriculture authorities

Rose Shilling

October 7, 2020

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Meijer recalled whole cantaloupes and some cut fruit containers for possible salmonella, found in a sampling investigation by agriculture authorities.

Packaging

Bimbo, Kroger among brands using mail-in recycling for flexible packaging

More food companies join TerraCycle to ask consumers to save and ship in their packaging

Rose Shilling

September 16, 2020

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TerraCycle is gaining ground in the food industry with new customers for its waste reuse and recycling models.

Pet Food

Scoular’s new plant to make high-quality pet food ingredients that shoppers demand

Petsource factory will freeze-dry and package high-protein ingredients for pet food manufacturers

Rose Shilling

September 3, 2020

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The Scoular Co. has completed its new plant to produce freeze-dried protein ingredients that will help pet food manufacturers meet demand for high-quality products.

Consumers are choosing products and brands they know and trust as they shop for food during the global pandemic. Any disruption to production could damage brand reputation, wreak havoc on throughput and disrupt the supply chain.

Food Engineering

2020 November

In the November 2020 issue of Food Engineering, we put a spotlight on sustainability. This issue features an in-depth look at the winner of our Sustainable Plant of the Year award.

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