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CEN
CEN/TC 153 Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed
European Norm
67.260 Plants and equipment for the food industry
Published
1.1 This document specifies the safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of cooking kettles equipped with powered stirrer and/or mixer taking account of installation, operation, cleaning, removal of jammed food, feeding, maintenance and changing the tools.
The cooking kettles equipped with powered stirrer and/or mixer are used from catering to small scale-food industry to cook, cool and mix all cold or hot food. They permit addition of ingredients during processing without stopping the machine.
NOTE The kettle bowl can be fixed or equipped with a manually or power operated tilting mechanism.
In the text that follows, the term "cooking kettles" is used to refer to the equipment covered by this document.
This document covers cooking kettles equipped with powered stirrer and/or mixer having technical performances in accordance with the following:
- thermal energy supply can be electricity, gas (see EN 125 and EN 161), steam or heat-conducting fluid;
- capacity of the kettle: from 30 l to 600 l (nominal volume);
- maximum power rating 80 kW;
- speed of the powered stirrer: 10 rpm to 200 rpm;
- maximum speed of the mixer: 3 000 rpm.
The machines covered by this document are not intended to be cleaned with a high pressure water jet.
This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to cooking kettles, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4).
1.2 This document does not apply to:
- domestic machines (i.e. capacity of kettles less than 30 l);
- planetary mixers which are covered by EN 454;
- food processors which are covered by EN 12852;
- cooking kettles without powered stirrer and/or mixer having a manual tilting kettle.
1.3 This document does not deal with hazard due to the pressure on machines with a double jacket.
NOTE Depending on the pressure and the volume of the double jacket, the cookin
Legislation related to this standard
Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
Harmonized/Supporting
PUBLISHED
EN 13886:2005+A1:2010
90.60
Close of review
Dec 2, 2017
