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EN 15166:2008 Standard

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  Keywords:

#automatic #document #deals #hazardous #significant

  Directive

Machinery (MD) Directive (2006/42/EC)

  Last Official Journal reference

Monday 7th of September 2026

  Description:

Food processing machinery - Automatic back splitting machines of butchery carcasses - Safety and hygiene requirements

  Purpose

This European Standard applies to automatic back splitting machines and specifies safety and health requirements for machines used in slaughterhouses in order to fully automatically split meat animal (beef and pork) along the back-bone axis, splitting the carcass into two parts (see Figure 1). This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to automatic back splitting machines, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events during transport, assembly and installation, commissioning and use as defined in EN ISO 12100-1:2003, 5.3. This document is not applicable to automatic back splitting machines, which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.

  Publication

Tuesday 8th of September 2009

  Cessation

This standard will be withdrawn on 2027-01-20

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