This European Standard specifies requirements for bowl cutters used when stationary and positioned on the floor or at table height.
Bowl cutters are food machines used to process fresh or frozen meat, meat products, fish and vegetables in a rotating bowl. This is performed by means of vertical blades rotating around a nearly horizontal axis. This European Standard deal with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to rotating bowl cutters, when they are used as intended and under condtions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.