EN 12043:2000/FprA1

Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and hygiene requirements

Nahrungsmittelmaschinen - Zwischengärschrank - Sicherheits-und Hygieneanforderungen

Machines pour les produits alimentaires - Chambres de repos -Prescriptions relatives à la sécurité et à l'hygiène

Stroji za predelavo hrane - Komore za vmesno počivanje testa - Varnostne in higienske zahteve - Dopolnilo A1

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• ICS: 67.260 - Plants and equipment for the food industry
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 153 - Food processing machinery - Safety and hygiene specifications
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 153/WG 1 - Bakery equipment
• Current Stage: 5060 - Closure of Vote - Formal Approval
• Start Date: 11-Jul-2010
• Due Date: 24-Jun-2010
• Completion Date: 11-Jul-2010
• Directive: 2006/42/EC - Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
• Directive: 98/37/EC - Machinery
• Mandate: M/079 - Mandate to CEN and CENELEC for standardization in the field of machines
• Mandate: M/396 - Mandate to CEN and Cenelec for standardisation in the field of machinery
• Ref Project: SIST EN 12043:2002/kFprA1:2010 - Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and hygiene requirements - Amendment A1

Relations

• Merged Into: EN 12043:2000+A1:2010 - Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and hygiene requirements
• Effective Date: 17-Jul-2010
• Amends: EN 12043:2000 - Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and hygiene requirements
• Effective Date: 22-Dec-2008

Overview

EN 12043:2000/FprA1 is a European standard developed by CEN/TC 153, focusing on food processing machinery, specifically intermediate provers used in the baking industry. This standard outlines critical safety and hygiene requirements for intermediate provers equipped with moving pocket carriers. The amendment A1 modifies the original 2000 standard to enhance safety measures, hygiene standards, and ergonomic considerations in the design, operation, maintenance, and dismantling of these machines.

Intermediate provers are essential in bakery production lines where dough pieces undergo controlled proofing. This standard ensures that the machinery used complies with European safety directives and harmonizes technical specifications related to the prevention of hazards and maintenance of hygienic conditions.

Key Topics

• Scope and Application: Covers all significant hazards related to installation, operation, cleaning, maintenance, and scrapping of intermediate provers with moving pocket carriers. Not applicable to machines manufactured before the standard’s publication as EN.

• Safety Requirements:

  • Mechanical hazards are addressed with updated guard designs and control system requirements ensuring compliance with EN 1088:1995+A2:2008 and EN 953:1997+A1:2009.
  • Electrical hazards requirements include protection against shock, over-current detection, immunity to electromagnetic disturbances, and adequate enclosure IP ratings following EN 60204-1:2006 and EN 60529:1991.
  • Control Systems must meet at least performance level ‘c’ of EN ISO 13849-1:2008 to guarantee reliability in safety functions.
  • Emergency Equipment: No emergency stop is required but normal OFF switch access must be ensured for operators.

• Hygiene Requirements: Requirements align with EN 1672-2:2005+A1:2009 ensuring that materials, surfaces, and machine construction prevent contamination and facilitate cleaning.

• Ergonomics and Noise: Incorporates ergonomic design principles from EN 614-1:2006+A1:2009. The noise reduction clause has been removed, but ergonomic risks are acknowledged and mitigated.

• Verification Methods: Provides guidelines for verifying safety and hygiene compliance through inspection, testing, measurement, and calculation to ensure machinery meets relevant standards before commissioning.

Applications

• Bakery Production Lines: Intermediate provers compliant with EN 12043:2000/FprA1 can be safely integrated into automated dough processing systems, ensuring consistent proofing under hygienic conditions.

• Machinery Manufacturers and Designers: Facilitates design and construction of compliant intermediate prover machinery with standardized safety and hygiene requirements, reducing risks of accidents and contamination.

• Quality and Safety Inspectors: Offers clear criteria and verification methods for auditing intermediate provers used in food production facilities to guarantee user safety and product quality.

• Maintenance Teams: Provides guidelines ensuring safe and hygienic handling during adjustment, maintenance, cleaning, and dismantling of intermediate provers.

Related Standards

• EN ISO 12100 – Safety of machinery: Basic concepts and general design principles.
• EN ISO 13849-1 – Safety-related parts of control systems: Design principles and performance levels.
• EN 60204-1 – Electrical equipment of machines: Safety requirements.
• EN 1672-2 – Food processing machinery: Hygiene requirements.
• EN 1088 & EN 953 – Safety of machinery: Guarding requirements.
• EN 60529 – Degrees of protection (IP codes) for enclosures.
• EN 614-1 – Ergonomic design principles for machinery safety.

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By adhering to EN 12043:2000/FprA1, food machinery manufacturers and users ensure enhanced safety and hygiene in the operation of intermediate provers, contributing to safer production environments and better food quality outcomes. This standard is vital for harmonizing food machinery safety across the European Union and associated regions.

Standards Content (Sample)

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Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and hygiene requirements -
Amendment A1
Nahrungsmittelmaschinen - Zwischengärschrank - Sicherheits-und
Hygieneanforderungen
Machines pour les produits alimentaires - Chambres de repos - Prescriptions relatives à
la sécurité et à l'hygiène
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 12043:2000/FprA1
ICS:
67.260 Tovarne in oprema za Plants and equipment for the
živilsko industrijo food industry
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
FINAL DRAFT
EN 12043:2000
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
FprA1
February 2010
ICS 67.260
English Version
Food processing machinery - Intermediate provers - Safety and
hygiene requirements
Machines pour les produits alimentaires - Chambres de Nahrungsmittelmaschinen - Zwischengärschrank -
repos -Prescriptions relatives à la sécurité et à l'hygiène Sicherheits-und Hygieneanforderungen
This draft amendment is submitted to CEN members for unique acceptance procedure. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee
CEN/TC 153.
This draft amendment A1, if approved, will modify the European Standard EN 12043:2000. If this draft becomes an amendment, CEN
members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for inclusion of this amendment
into the relevant national standard without any alteration.

This draft amendment was established by CEN in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made
by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN Management Centre has the same
status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION
COMITÉ EUROPÉEN DE NORMALISATION

EUROPÄISCHES KOMITEE FÜR NORMUNG

Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2010 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved Ref. No. EN 12043:2000/FprA1:2010: E
worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents Page
Foreword .3
1 Modification to the Foreword .4
2 Modification to the Introduction .4
3 Modification to the Scope .4
4 Modification to Clause 2 .5
5 Modification to Clause 3 .6
6 Modification to Clause 4 .6
7 Modification to Clause 5 .7
8 Modification to 5.1, "Mechanical hazards" .7
9 Modification to 5.1.1.1 .7
10 Modification to 5.1.2 .8
11 Modification to 5.2, "Electrical hazards" .8
12 Modification to 5.4 "Hygiene requirements" .9
13 Modification to 5.5 "Hazards generated by neglecting ergonomic principles" .9
14 Modification to 5.6, "Noise reduction" .9
15 Modification to Clause 6 .9
16 Modification to Clause 7, "Information for use" . 10
17 Modification to 7.1 "Marking" . 11
18 Modification to A.2.1 "Type of materials" . 11
19 Modification to A.2.2 "Surface conditions" . 12
20 Modification to A.3.1 "Connections of internal surfaces" . 14
21 Modification to A.3.3.1 . 14
22 Modification to B.2 . 14
23 Modification to B.4 . 14
24 Modification to B.8 . 14
25 Modification to Annex ZA . 14
26 Addition of new Annex ZB . 15
27 Modification to the Bibliography . 16

Foreword
This document (EN 12043:2000/FprA1:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 153
“Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This document is currently submitted to the Unique Acceptance Procedure.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the
European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).
For relationship with EU Directive(s), see informative Annexes ZA and ZB, which are integral parts of this
document.
1 Modification to the Foreword
st
Replace the 1 paragraph with the following:
"This document (EN 12043:2000+A1:2010) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 153
“Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.".
th
Replace the 4 paragraph with the following:
"For relationship with EU Directive(s), see informative Annexes ZA and ZB, which are integral parts of this
document."
2 Modification to the Introduction
Replace the introduction with the following:
“This European Standard is a type C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100.
The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations and events are covered are
indicated in the scope of this European Standard.
When provisions of this type C standard are different from those which are stated in type A or B standards, the
provisions of this type C standard take precedence over the provisions of the other standards, for machines
that have been designed and built according to the provisions of this type C standard.”

3 Modification to the Scope
st
1 paragraph, add "as described in Clause 3" after "intermediate provers with moving pocket carriers".
nd
Replace the 2 paragraph with the following:
"This European Standard specifies all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the
installation, adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling, disabling and scrapping of
intermediate provers with moving pocket carriers when they are used as intended and under conditions of
misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4)."
th
Delete the 5 paragraph.
Add the following paragraph at the end:
“This standard is not applicable to intermediate provers with moving pocket carriers which are manufactured
before the date of its publication as EN.”

4 Modification to Clause 2
Replace the content of Clause 2 with the following:
"The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 294:1992, Safety of machinery — Safety distance to prevent danger zones being reached by the upper
limbs
EN 614-1:2006+A1:2009, Safety of machinery — Ergonomic design principles — Part 1: Terminology and
general principles
EN 953:1997+A1:2009, Safety of machinery — Guards — General requirements for the design and
construction of fixed and movable guards
EN 954-1:1996, Safety of machinery - Safety related parts of control systems - Part 1: General principles for
design
EN 1088:1995+A2:2008, Safety of machinery — Interlocking devices associated with guards — Principles for
design and selection
EN 1672-2:2005+A1:2009, Food processing machinery — Basic concepts — Part 2: Hygiene requirements
EN 60204-1:2006, Safety of machinery — Electrical equipment of machines — Part 1: General requirements
(IEC 60204-1:2005, modified)
EN 60529:1991, Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP code) (IEC 60529:1989)
EN ISO 3743-1:2009, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources — Engineering
methods for small, movable sources in reverberant fields — Part 1: Comparison method for hard-walled test
rooms (ISO 3743-1:1994)
EN ISO 3744:2009, Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources using sound pressure
— Engineering method in an essentially free field over a reflecting plane (ISO 3744:1994)
EN ISO 4287:1998, Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) — Surface texture: Profile method — Terms,
definitions and surface texture parameters (ISO 4287:1997)
EN ISO 4871:2009, Acoustics — Declaration and verification of noise emission values of machinery and
equipment (ISO 4871:1996)
EN ISO 11201:2009, Acoustics — Noise emitted by machinery and equipment - Measurement of emission
sound pressure levels at a work station and at other specified positions — Engineering method in an
essentially free field over a reflecting plane (ISO 11201:1995, including Cor 1:1997)
EN ISO 11688-1:2009, Acoustics — Recommended practice for the design of low-noise machinery and
equipment - Part 1: Planning (ISO/TR 11688-1:1995)
EN ISO 12001:2009, Acoustics — Noise emitted by machinery and equipment — Rules for the drafting and
presentation of a noise test code (ISO 12001:1996)
EN ISO 12100-1:2003, Safety of machinery — Basic concepts, general principles for design — Part 1: Basic
terminology, methodology (ISO 12100-1:2003)
EN ISO 12100-2:2003, Safety of machinery — Basic concepts, general principles for design — Part 2:
Technical principles (ISO 12100-2:2003)
EN ISO 13849-1:2008, Safety of machinery — Safety related parts of control systems — Part 1: General
principles for design (ISO 13849-1:2006)”

5 Modification to Clause 3
Replace
"3 Description
As shown in figure 1, an intermediate prover consists of:
 a variable number of fixed or hinged pockets supported in a carrier into which dough pieces are loaded.
One pocket may hold more than one dough piece;
 a mechanical transfer system moving the pocket carrier along a fixed path inside the machine;
 a frame supporting or containing the transmission machinery."
with
"3 Terms, definition and description
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in EN ISO 12100-1:2003 apply.
3.2 Description
As shown in Figure 1, an intermediate prover consists of:
 a variable number of fixed or hinged pockets supported in a carrier into which dough pieces are loaded.
One pocket may hold more than one dough piece;
 a mechanical transfer system moving the pocket carrier along a fixed path inside the machine;
 a frame supporting or containing the transmission machinery."

6 Modification to Clause 4
Replace the heading of Clause 4 with the following:
"4 List of significant hazards"
st
Replace the 1 paragraph with the following:
"
4.1 General
This clause contains all the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events, as far as they are dealt with
in this Standard, identified by risk assessment as significant this type of machinery, and which require action
to eliminate or reduce the risks.”
Renumber the subsequent sub-clauses accordingly.

7 Modification to Clause 5
Replace the heading with the following:
“5 Safety and hygiene requirements and/or protective measures"
Replace the hanging paragraph with the following:
"
5.1 General
Machinery shall comply wit
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