scope:

This document applies to tenderizing machines that are designed as table-top machines and are manually fed (hereinafter referred to as machine).

Usually these machines are used for unfrozen foodstuffs (hereinafter referred to as product), e.g. boneless meat, meat products, fish, cheese or vegetables.

These machines are not intended to be used with deep frozen foodstuffs.

This document is not applicable to:

- machines intended for domestic use;

- machines with automatic loading.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events on tenderizing machines, when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.

This document deals with the hazards which can arise during all the lifetime of the machine, including the phases of transport, assembly, commissioning, operation, cleaning, use, maintenance, decommissioning, dismantling, disabling and scrapping of the machine.

This document is not applicable to machines which are manufactured before its date of publication as EN.