This European Standard specifies the safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufactur of hand-held blenders and whisks used in the commercial and institutional catering, and in food shops.
The term "hand-held blenders" is used to refer to the equipment covered by this standard.
The machines covered by this standard are hand-held appliances whose tools is intended to process a foodstuff in a container.Tools are designed to crush,mix,mash,emulsify,etc.foodstuffs such as vegetables into soups,mashes,purees,sauces,mayonnaise,cream,dairy products and more generally to process all solid,liquid,pasty or powdery foodstuffs to obtain a homogeneous fluid.
These appliances are designed to process up to 100 l of food in one operation.
This standard applies to the following machines,according to their weight and to the operating modes required by their intended use:
- manually operated machines,using one or both hands,actuated throughout the whole operation;
- machines operating resting on the bottom of the container;
- machines fixed to or placed on a special support which can be fitted to the container.The support acts as a substitute for the operator for operations that take a long time or for food processing which may present risks of burns (steam or splashes).