SRPS EN 13954:2008

Food processing machinery - Bread slicers - Safety and hygiene requirements

Scope

1.1 This document specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of bread slicing machines of type 1 and 2 as defined in Clause 3.
The intended use of these machines is to cut baked bread into slices.
This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to bread slicers machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).
This document covers requirements for the safe operation of the machine including: loading, cutting, unloading, cleaning, crumb removal and maintenance.
These machines can be manually or automatically operated.
1.2 The following machines are excluded from the scope of this document:
- experimental and testing machines under development by the manufacturer;
- frame cutter machines with multiple blades moving horizontally;
- domestic appliances and machines intended for use by the general public;
- machines with horizontal circular cutting systems;
- rectangular cutting machines for cutting or sawing of panel size products into small pieces.
The significant hazards covered by this document are described in Clause 4.
1.4 In writing this document, it has been assumed that the bread slicers falling within the scope are operated only by trained personnel and that the machines are not intended to be cleaned with water jet.
1.5 This document applies to bread slicing machines which are manufactured before the date of publication by CEN of this document.

Related directives

NOTE: If the word "harmonized" (marked in green) is not found in the field with the name of the directive, it means that the European standard is not cited in the OJEU.