EN 12851:2005

This European Standard specifies the safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of the following catering attachments intended to be connected to an auxiliary drive hub of machines used in catering (mainly but not exclusively planetary mixers) and to be used in the commercial and institutional catering industry:-vegetable cutters and cheese graters;-worm type attachments:-fruit squeezers;-meat mincers;-pasta extruders;-coffee grinder;-strip cutters;-planetary mixers and whippers;-potato-mashers.1.2This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to catering attachments, when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. It deals with the hazards due to the use, the maintenance, the cleaning, removal of jammed food, feeding and changing the tool (see Clause 4).1.3This European Standard is not applicable to:-catering attachments which are exclusively part of the equipment of the machines they are intended for (as optional or standard equipment);-the driving machines for which the attachments are intended (but the standard deals with the interface of the attachments with these machines);-attachments including electrical equipment.1.4Noise is not dealt with in this European Standard.1.5This European Standard is not applicable to catering attachments which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.