BS EN 13954:2005+A1:2010

Food processing machinery. Bread slicers. Safety and hygiene requirements. | Status: Current

1 Scope 1.1 This European Standard specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of bread slicing machines of type 1 and 2 as defined in Clause 3. The intended use of these machines is to cut baked bread into slices. This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to bread slicers machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). This European Standard covers requirements for the safe operation of the machine including: loading, cutting, unloading, cleaning, crumb removal and maintenance. These machines can be manually or automatically operated.