1 This European standard specifies the safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of hand-held blenders and whisks used in the commercial and institutional catering, and in food shops.
The term "hand-held blenders" is used to refer to the equipment covered by this standard.
The machines covered by this standard are hand-held appliances whose tool is intended to process a foodstuff in a container. Tools are designed to crush, mix, mash, emulsify, etc. foodstuffs such as vegetables into soups, mashes, purees, sauces, mayonnaise, cream, dairy products and more generally to process all solid, liquid, pasty or powdery foodstuffs to obtain a homogeneous fluid.
These appliances are designed to process up to 100 l of food in one operation.
This standard applies to the following machines, according to their weight and to the operating modes required by their intended use:
— manually operated machines, using one or both hands, actuated throughout the whole operation (see figure 1);
— machines operating resting on the bottom of the container (see figure 2);
— machines fixed to or placed on a special support which can be fitted to the container (see figure 3). The support acts as a substitute for the operator for operations that take a long time or for food processing which may present risks of burns (steam or splashes).
It applies when such machines are operated under the intended conditions of use as defined in 3.12 of EN 292-1:1991 and stated in the instruction handbook (see 7.1), including cleaning, removal of jammed food, feeding and changing the cutting device.
2 This standard does not apply to:
— domestic machines;
— vertical crushers, sieves mounted on trolleys and beam mixers (beam mixers are covered by prEN 12854:1997).
3 This standard covers significant hazards at such machines, as identified by risk assessment (see EN 1050:1996), which are listed in clause 4 of this standard. In addition machinery shall comply as appropriate which EN 292 and prEN 1672-1:1994 for hazards which are not covered by this standard.
4 Noise is not considered to be a significant hazard for hand-held blenders and whisks. This does not mean that the manufacturer of these machines is absolved from reducing noise and making a noise declaration. Therefore a noise test code is proposed in Annex A.
Vibrations are not considered to be a significant hazard for these machines and no test method is given.
5 This standard applies primarily to machines which are manufactured after its date of issue.
BS EN 12853:2001 history
2001BS EN 12853:2001+A1:2010 Food processing machinery - Hand-held blenders and whisks - Safety and hygiene requirements
2001BS EN 12853:2001 Food processing machinery - Hand-held blenders and whisks - Safety and hygiene requirements