SIST EN IEC 63169:2020

Electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances - Food preservation and storage

This document deals with a test to simulate the weight loss of leafy produce, given certain
conditions of temperature, humidity and air movement in one or more test zones. The test can
only be applied to spaces larger than 200 mm × 150 mm ×100 mm (L × W × H).
The aim of the test is to measure the weight loss rate by measuring the weight of a test tray
prior to the test and after a given duration.
NOTE Weight loss is one of the considerations for shelf life of produce. Other considerations such as condensation
will be addressed in future amendments.

Elektrische Haushalts- und ähnliche Kühl- und Gefriergeräte – Lebensmittelkonservierung

Appareils électrodomestiques et appareils de refroidissement et de réfrigération analogues - Conservation des aliments

L'IEC 63169:2020 porte sur un essai visant à simuler la perte de poids des légumes feuillus, dans certaines conditions de température, d'humidité et de mouvement de l'air dans une ou plusieurs zone(s) d'essai. L'essai peut uniquement être réalisé dans des espaces de plus de (200 × 150 × 100) mm (L × l × H).
L'essai vise à déterminer le taux de perte de poids en mesurant le poids d'un plateau d'essai avant de procéder à l'essai et après une certaine durée.
La perte de poids est l'une des considérations en matière de durée de conservation des produits. D'autres considérations (la condensation, par exemple) seront traitées dans des amendements à venir.

Gospodinjske in podobne električne naprave za hlajenje in zamrzovanje - Ohranjanje hrane in skladiščenje

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 08-Sep-2020
• ICS: 97.040.30 - Domestic refrigerating appliances
• Technical Committee: FGA - Consumer information related to household electrical appliances
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 07-Sep-2020
• Due Date: 12-Nov-2020
• Completion Date: 09-Sep-2020
• Ref Project: EN IEC 63169:2020 - Electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances - Food preservation

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN IEC 63169:2020
01-oktober-2020
Gospodinjske in podobne električne naprave za hlajenje in zamrzovanje -
Ohranjanje hrane in skladiščenje

Electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances - Food preservation and

storage
Elektrische Haushalts- und ähnliche Kühl- und Gefriergeräte –
Lebensmittelkonservierung
Appareils électrodomestiques et appareils de refroidissement et de réfrigération
analogues - Conservation des aliments
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 63169:2020
ICS:
97.040.30 Hladilni aparati za dom Domestic refrigerating
appliances
SIST EN IEC 63169:2020 en

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 63169
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
August 2020
ICS 97.040.30; 67.040
English Version
Electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances
- Food preservation
(IEC 63169:2020)

Appareils électrodomestiques et appareils de Elektrische Haushalts- und ähnliche Kühl- und

refroidissement et de réfrigération analogues - Gefriergeräte - Lebensmittelkonservierung

Conservation des aliments (IEC 63169:2020)
(IEC 63169:2020)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2020-07-27. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC

Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

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Ref. No. EN IEC 63169:2020 E
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EN IEC 63169:2020 (E)
European foreword

The text of document 59M/123/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 63169, prepared by SC 59M

"Performance of electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances" of IEC/TC 59

"Performance of household and similar electrical appliances" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC

parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 63169:2020.
The following dates are fixed:

• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2021-04-27

level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement

• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2023-07-27

document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of

patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice

The text of the International Standard IEC 63169:2020 was approved by CENELEC as a European

Standard without any modification.

In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards

indicated:
IEC 62552-2:2015 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62552-2:2020 (modified)
ISO 9073-3:1989 NOTE Harmonized as EN 29073-3:1992 (not modified)
ISO 9237:1995 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 9237:1995 (not modified)
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements 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.

NOTE 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant

EN/HD applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:

www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 62552-1 (mod) 2015 Household refrigerating appliances - EN 62552-1 2020
Characteristics and test methods - Part 1:
General requirements
IEC 62552-3 (mod) 2015 Household refrigerating appliances - EN 62552-3 2020
Characteristics and test methods - Part 3:
Energy consumption and volume
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IEC 63169
Edition 1.0 2020-06
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
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Electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances – Food
preservation
Appareils électrodomestiques et appareils de refroidissement et de réfrigération
analogues – Conservation des aliments
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 67.040; 97.040.30 ISBN 978-2-8322-8523-7

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 3

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 5

1 Scope .............................................................................................................................. 6

2 Normative references ...................................................................................................... 6

3 Terms and definitions ...................................................................................................... 6

4 Test preparation .............................................................................................................. 7

4.1 Preparation and handling of test material ................................................................ 7

4.2 Installation and preparation of refrigerating appliance ............................................. 7

4.3 Measurement sensor uncertainty ............................................................................ 8

5 Weight loss test ............................................................................................................... 8

5.1 Procedure ............................................................................................................... 8

5.2 Weight loss calculation. ........................................................................................ 10

Annex A (informative) Non-woven material specifications .................................................... 11

A.1 General ................................................................................................................. 11

A.2 Non-woven fabric specification 1 ........................................................................... 11

A.3 Visual inspection of test trays ............................................................................... 11

A.4 Non-woven fabric, material specification 2 ............................................................ 12

Annex B (normative) Test tray ............................................................................................. 14

Annex C (informative) Outline of test report for weight loss test ........................................... 15

Annex D (informative) Equivalence of non-woven material ................................................... 17

Annex E (informative) Expected uncertainty of weight loss................................................... 18

Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 19

Figure 1 – Examples of test tray placement ............................................................................ 9

Figure A.1 – Non-woven fabric of various ages ..................................................................... 12

Figure B.1 – Test tray ........................................................................................................... 14

Figure D.1 – Example of an acceptable equivalence ............................................................. 17

Figure E.1 – Individual laboratory test results ....................................................................... 18

Table 1 – Test equipment ....................................................................................................... 7

Table A.1 – Non-woven fabric material specification 2 .......................................................... 12

Table C.1 – Test results ........................................................................................................ 16

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ELECTRICAL HOUSEHOLD AND SIMILAR COOLING
AND FREEZING APPLIANCES – FOOD PRESERVATION
FOREWORD

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International Standard IEC 63169 has been prepared by subcommittee 59M: Performance of

electrical household and similar cooling and freezing appliances, of IEC technical committee

59: Performance of household and similar electrical appliances.
The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
59M/123/FDIS 59M/125/RVD

Full information on the voting for the approval of this International Standard can be found in the

report on voting indicated in the above table.

This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

In this document, the following print types are used:

• terms defined in Clause 3 of this document, and in Clause 3 of IEC 62552-1:2015: Arial

bold.
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The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the

stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to

the specific document. At this date, the document will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.

NOTE 1 The attention of National Committees is drawn to the fact that equipment manufacturers and testing

organizations may need a transitional period following publication of a new, amended or revised IEC publication in

which to make products in accordance with the new requirements and to equip themselves for conducting new or

revised tests.

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INTRODUCTION

The weight loss test assesses some of the food care aspects of various compartments, sub-

compartments and convenience features within a refrigerator. The test can be performed

with real or artificial foods. Real foods have seasonal and regional variations, making them

difficult for global use for repeatable and reproducible testing.

Research was carried out on materials, which proved that a particular non-woven material was

suitable to use to replicate real food. This non-woven material is used to replicate weight loss

from food in the weight loss test. Consequently, this document contains an artificial material

weight loss test.
As much as possible, alignment has been made with the performance test standards
IEC 62552-1 and IEC 62552-3.

This document contains a link to the SC 59M Supporting Documents that are available on the

IEC website. The SC 59M Supporting Documents include the 3D printing files, referred to in

Annex B. These files are intended to be used as a complement, and do not form an integral

part of the document.
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ELECTRICAL HOUSEHOLD AND SIMILAR COOLING
AND FREEZING APPLIANCES – FOOD PRESERVATION
1 Scope

This document deals with a test to simulate the weight loss of leafy produce, given certain

conditions of temperature, humidity and air movement in one or more test zones. The test can

only be applied to spaces larger than 200 mm × 150 mm ×100 mm (L × W × H).

The aim of the test is to measure the weight loss rate by measuring the weight of a test tray

prior to the test and after a given duration.

NOTE Weight loss is one of the considerations for shelf life of produce. Other considerations such as condensation

will be addressed in future amendments.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a
...