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 byThis standard. The machines covered byThis 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).
EN 12853:2001 history
2010EN 12853:2001+A1:2010 Food processing machinery - Hand-held blenders and whisks - Safety and hygiene requirements
2001EN 12853:2001 Food processing machinery - Hand-held blenders and whisks - Safety and hygiene requirements (Incorporating corrigendum December 2010; Incorporates Amendment A1: 2010)