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Rose Shilling

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.

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Food Safety

Hepatitis A outbreak may be linked to fresh blackberries from Fresh Thyme chain

Officials tell people in 11 Midwest states to throw out blackberries from certain dates

Rose Shilling

November 26, 2019

Public health officials are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses in three states that might be linked to fresh, conventional blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme Farmers Market grocery.

Food Packaging

Color-changing ink to check HPP packaging

Rose Shilling

October 29, 2019

A specialty ink company is offering a new version of its color-changing technology to detect individual packages that failed during high pressure processing.

Grand Strand chicken salad sandwich recall

Food Safety

Tip Top Poultry, FDA release growing list of retailers, labels in listeria recall

Recall includes RTE poultry made throughout 2019

Rose Shilling

October 15, 2019

Tip Top Poultry Inc. and the FDA provided a wider picture of the reach of a ready-to-eat chicken recall for possible listeria. The chicken went in heat-and-eat meals, sandwiches and deli salads at major grocery stores and a few restaurants.

Food Packaging

Modified atmosphere packaging for long-haul transport of veggies sans ice

Rose Shilling

September 26, 2019

Modified atmosphere bulk packaging is shaking up the long-haul transport of fresh broccoli and other vegetables traditionally shipped on ice, the packaging maker says.

Food Packaging

Packaging protects probiotic yogurt and milk from light exposure damage

Rose Shilling

September 17, 2019

Certification company Noluma International says its research shows that lights, including fluorescents and LEDs, in stores and other places can degrade milk’s vitamins, nutrients, freshness, quality and taste in less than an hour.

Food Safety

More stores added to tuna recall for toxin from improper chilling

5 illnesses reported from scombroid poisoning

Rose Shilling

September 17, 2019

Alfa International Seafood Inc. recalled refrigerated yellowfin tuna steaks because they might cause a type of food poisoning from fish that have begun to spoil.

Food Safety

Nature’s One recalls soy drink mix after learning milk product added to flavoring

Label didn’t list milk; recall required even though testing didn’t detect the allergen

Rose Shilling

September 3, 2019

Nature’s One recalled PediaSmart Soy Vanilla Beverage Mix after learning in a routine vendor document review that milk or a milk derivative was added to the natural flavor, the company announced.

Food Safety

Documentation is key to proving hazard control

Rose Shilling

August 6, 2019

Many processors have grown more sophisticated at compiling information and presenting it when inspectors ask for proof that a facility's food safety management system is working. But no matter the companies’ size or record management methods, they likely experience some of the common deficiencies that experts see.