prEN 1672-2 rev

Food processing machinery - Basic concepts - Part 2: Hygiene requirements prEN 1672-2 rev

Scope

This document specifies common hygiene requirements for machinery used in preparing and processing food for human and, where relevant, animal consumption to eliminate or minimise the risk of contagion, infection, illness or injury arising from this food. It identifies the hazards which are relevant to the use of such food processing machinery and describes design methods and information for use for the elimination or reduction of these risks.
In addition, the principles contained in this document can be applied to other machinery and equipment used to process food where similar risks apply.
This document does not deal with the hygiene related risks to personnel arising from the use of the machine.

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