scope:

This Standard specifies safety and hygiene requirements for thedesign and manufacture of dough sheeters, as described in Clause 3,used in the food industry and craft activities (bread-making,pastry-making, sweet industries, bakeries, confectioners,delicatessens, catering facilities, etc.) for reducing thethickness of a solid mass of dough or pastry by rolling it out.This Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardoussituations and events relevant to the transport, installation,adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling,disassembling and scrapping of dough mixers, when they are used asintended and under the conditions of misuse which are reasonablyforeseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). This Standard dealswith all significant hazards, hazardous situations and eventsrelevant to dough sheeters, when they are used as intended andunder conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by themanufacturer (see Clause 5). Noise is not considered to be asignificant hazard. This does not mean that the manufacturer isabsolved from reducing noise and making a noise declaration.Therefore a noise test code is given in Annex B. The followingmachines are excluded: ? experimental and testing machines underdevelopment by the manufacturer; ? dough sheeters where the doughis fed to the rollers by gravity (e.g. pizzabase dough sheeters); ?domestic appliances1). This Standard is not applicable to doughsheeters which are manufactured before the date of its publicationas EN.