What is BS EN 13870 about?
BS EN 13870 discusses food processing machinery. This European standard focuses on safety and hygiene requirements that the food processing industry should maintain to ensure the wellbeing of its employees and consumers. BS EN 13870 defines requirements for the design and manufacture of portion cutting machines. The machines covered by BS EN 13870 are used for continuous portioning of fresh, smoked, or frozen meat with and without bones or of equivalent products by separation by means of a blade.
BS EN 13870 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to machines, appliances, and machinery, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are foreseeable by the manufacturer
Note: BS EN 13870 does not apply to automatic industrial slicing machines and band saw machines. BS EN 13870 does not deal with the specific hazards of loading devices.
Who is BS EN 13870:2015 for?
BS EN 13870 on safety and hygiene requirements for portion cutting machines is useful for:
- Manufacturers of food processing machines
- Food processing industry
- Slaughterhouses
- Packaged meat providers
- Food safety departments
- Health and safety bodies
Why should you use BS EN 13870?
Portion cutting machines cut large-sized meats into packageable sizes. They reduce the extensive effort required to cut meats and increase the production efficiency of the slaughterhouse. These machines need to adhere to safety and hygiene regulations.
BS EN 13870 provides you with the requirements for the design and manufacture of portion cutting machines to improve the safety and quality of food processing. BS EN 13870 helps you identify all significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to portion cutting machines.
BS EN 13870 enables you to carry out your meat processing activities safely and maintain the hygiene of your portion cutting machines.
What is changed since the last update?
BS EN 13870:2015+A1:2021 supersedes EN 13870:2015. BS EN 13870:2015+A1:2021 includes some technical changes with respect to EN 13870:2015. These include:
- Types of machines have been adapted to the current state of the art, pictures of the types of machines have been renewed, exclusion of automatic industrial slicing machines
- Clarify of some definitions and use of this wording, inclusion of automatic loading
- Better description of the requirements for protective equipment, risk areas, such as inlet tunnel
- Components have been added, such as pusher and rocker
