European Committee for Standardization

Food processing machinery - Rotating bowl cutters - Safety and hygiene requirements - Incorporates Amendment A1: 2010
 N EN 12855

Annotation

This European Standard specifies requirements for bowl cutters (see figure 1) used when stationary and positioned on the floor or at table height.

Bowl cutters are food machines used to process fresh or frozen meat, meat products, fish and vegetables in a rotating bowl. This is performed by means of vertical blades rotating around a nearly horizontal axis.This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to rotating bowl cutters, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).

This European Standard specifies the hazards which can arise during commissioning, operation, cleaning, use, maintenance and decommissioning of the machine.

This standard does not apply to household bowl cutters.

This standard only applies to machines which are manufactured after the date of issue of this standard.

This standard covers the following types of bowl cutters according to the diameter (D) or the volume (V) of the bowl:

— Type 1 bowl cutters

D < 700 mm or 2 l < V < 30 l

— Type 2 bowl cutters

700 mm < D < 1 200 mm or 30 l < V < 120 l

— Type 3 bowl cutters

D > 1 200 mm or V > 120 l