This standard specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of fixed bowl planetary mixers of capacity greater than or equal to 5 l ) and less than 500 l used to process various ingredients e.g. cocoa, flour, sugar, oils and fat, minced meat, eggs, and other ingredients, in the food industry and shops.These machines are sometimes used in other industries (e.g. pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry, printing, etc.), but hazards related to these uses are not considered in this standard.The following machines are excluded:- accessory planetary mixers;- continuously fed machines;- dough mixers );- experimental and testing machine