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1.1 This document applies to the design and manufacture of stand alone automatic dough dividers, having a feed hopper, an outlet and a compact housing. These automatic dough dividers are used separately or in a line in the food industry and shops (pastry-making, bakeries, confectionery, etc.) for dividing dough or pastry into adjustable portions to produce the required weight of dough piece during a dividing process. These machines can be fed by hand or automatically. This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the installation, adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling, disassembling and scrapping of automatic dividers, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). These machines are not intended to be cleaned with pressurised water. 1.2 The following machines are excluded: . experimental and testing machines, under development by the manufacturer; . weighing devices; . pressure dividers, without a feed hopper, using knives for the dividing process; . line with separate cutting or forming elements outside the housing; . lifting and tilting machines1) or other separate feeding machines. 1.3 A noise test code is included in Annex A to assist manufacturers to measure noise levels for the purpose of the noise emission declaration. 1.4 This European Standard is not applicable to machines which are manufactured before the date of publication of this European Standard by CEN.