Food processing machinery - Mincing machines - Safety and hygiene requirements

This document specifies requirements for the design and manufacture of mincing machines (see Figure 1). The mincing machines (hereinafter referred to as machine) covered by this document are used for size reduction of fresh or frozen meat, meat products and fish (hereinafter referred to as product) by cutting in a set of cutting tools. Household machines are not included in this document. Filling mincers are covered by EN 12463 “Food processing machinery — Filling machines and auxiliary machines — Safety and hygiene requirements”. This document applies only to machines that are manufactured after the date of issue of this document. This document covers: a) professional machines (see Figure 1 a) used for on-demand preparation in shops and/or restaurants characterized by all of the following features (if any of the features is missing the machine is considered an industrial machine): 1) designed as a table-top machine; 2) having a feed tray; 3) the product is only fed manually; 4) is only operated from the ground; 5) is operated by no more than one operator; 6) with full visibility and full accessibility of the entire machine from the operator workstation; 7) having hole plate diameter ≤ 106 mm; 8) a worm casing set which is removable without using any tools; 9) the weight of the worm casing set ≤ 15 kg;