Standards pervade the world around us, in ways that we might not be aware of. Food and food processing is such an area. Now there’s a new standard for the safety requirements for food processing machinery. It’s the EN 1672-1 and it’s just been released. Titled “Food processing machinery. Basic concepts. Safety requirements,” the document provides guidance for the eurozone. However, many manufacturers of such equipment will want to take note if they sell product into this market.
EN 1672-1 deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to commercial and industrial food processing machines. You’ll need to be concerned with situations where your equipment is used as intended and also under conditions of misuse which should have reasonably been foreseen. These events can occur during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning, setting, teaching, programming, process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding and maintenance.
The standard deals with those risks which occur commonly in food processing machines. It is expected that common technical requirements can be set which can be applied to all (or most) machines which have that defined hazard.
Remember, this is not geared for the domestic use product, but for commercial equipment. And it will also not address packaging machines.
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If you’d like to learn about other new standards for food technology, please see my posting today for our blog.document-center.com. Here is the exact link:
http://blog.document-center.com/2014/10/new-food-technology-standards-for-3rd.html