Overview

This standard defines relevant requirements set out in Annex I of the new EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, relating to machines which were placed on the European Economic Area (EEA) market for the first time, with the intent of simplifying the means of proving conformity with these requirements. Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, it is deemed a "harmonized" standard and thus, a manufacturer applying this standard may assume compliance with the requirements of the Machinery Directive ("presumption of conformity"). This European Standard deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to commercial and industrial food processing machines as defined in Clause 3 when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This European Standard deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events that occur during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, setting, teaching, programming, process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding and maintenance. This European Standard deals with those risks which occur commonly in food processing machines and for which common technical requirements can be set which can be applied at all (or most) machines which have that particular hazard. This European Standard is not applicable to the following machines: - food processing machines intended for domestic use; - food processing machines covered by the machine-specific standards; - packaging machines; - machines used in the agricultural and animal rearing sectors. This European Standard does not deal with the hygiene risks to the consumer of the food product handled in the food processing machine. These risks are dealt with in EN 1672-2:2005+A1:2009. This European Standard is not applicable to food processing machines that were manufactured before the date of its publication as a European Standard. This standard contains the German version of EN 1672-1:2014 which has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 153 "Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed" of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). The national interests during the preparation of the standard were represented by Committee NA 060-18-12 AA "Sicherheit" ("Safety") at Technical Section "Food Processing Machinery" of the DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering (NAM). Representatives of the manufacturers and users of food processing machinery as well as of professional and trade associations are involved in the preparation of this standard.

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Responsible national committee

NA 060-18-12 AA - Safety  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 153/WG 12 - Safety