Ansell AlphaTec 87-195 Lightweight Food-Safe Gloves

The Ansell AlphaTec 87-195 Lightweight Food-Safe Gloves are an ultra-thin pair of gloves that offer protection for job tasks in the food processing, chemical, agricultural, and janitorial industries. Designed with excellent tactility and Type B chemical resistance, these gloves are ideal for a variety of handling and cleaning tasks. The lightweight construction and cotton flocked lining ensures maximum comfort during use.

What's Included?

• 1x Pair of Gloves

Which Size Food-Safe Gloves Should I Wear?

The Ansell AlphaTec Food-Safe Gloves are available in a range of sizes, making it easy to find your perfect fit. To discover which size gloves you should wear, start by measuring the length of your hand and the circumference of your palm (as seen below).

Once you have these measurements, compare them to the table below to find out what your glove size is. If your measurements are between two sizes, choose the larger size for the most comfortable fit.

Who Can Use the Lightweight Gloves?

These lightweight gloves are ideal for food processing, janitorial and sanitation, agriculture, and chemical industries. Recommended uses for the gloves include:

• All food processing applications that involve direct contact with foodstuffs
• Fruit and vegetable processing
• Cleaning
• Janitorial tasks
• Laboratory maintenance and clean-up

How Can the Ansell AlphaTec Gloves Protect My Hands?

The Ansell AlphaTec 87-195 Gloves are designed with a range of protective features to keep your hands safe when working with foodstuffs, chemicals, and cleaning products. These features include:

• Food-safe construction for secure and hygienic handling of foodstuffs
• Type B chemical resistance for optimal protection against a small range of hazardous chemicals, acids, animal fats, oil, detergents, and alcohols
• Designed with resistance to viruses to help minimise contact-contamination
• Protects the hands against radioactive contamination
• Specially treated natural latex rubber reduces the risk of allergic reactions
• Heightened tactility enables safer precision handling

Testing to European Standards

EN388: Mechanical Resistance

• EN388: 1010X

EN ISO 374-1: Chemical Resistance

• EN ISO 374-1: Type B: KLT

Please note: While these gloves offer a high level of protection for most of the chemicals listed, they only offer splash protection against sulphuric acid.

EN ISO 374-5: Resistance to Micro-organisms

These gloves meet the European Standards for protection against viruses.

EN421: Radioactive Resistance

These gloves meet the European Standards for protection against radioactive contamination.

Food Declaration of Conformity

These gloves meet the EC-regulation 1935/2004 and EC-regulation 2023/2006 related to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs.

Features and Benefits of VersaTouch 87-195 Gloves

• Pair of ultra-thin cotton and natural rubber latex gloves
• Sold in sets of 12
• Ideal for food processing and cleaning tasks
• Food-safe design allows for secure and hygienic contact with foodstuffs
• Type B chemical resistance offers protection against mild acids, animal fats, oil, detergents, and alcohols
• Ultra-thin design allows for heightened tactility, ideal for delicate handling tasks
• Fish-scale texture offers enhanced grip
• Lightweight construction enables excellent dexterity, and ease-of-movement
• Specially treated natural rubber latex helps to reduce the risk of allergic reactions
• Cotton flocking offers moisture absorbency for improved comfort during use
• Designed to offer protection from viruses to help prevent contamination
• Radioactive resistant construction protects against radioactive contamination
• Available in a range of sizes, so you can find your ideal fit

What Are the AlphaTec Gloves Made From?

• Liner: Cotton flocking
• Coating: Natural latex rubber

Documentation for the Ansell 87-195 Gloves

• Declaration of Conformity
• Food Declaration of Conformity
• Chemical breakthrough times
• Instructions for use

Delivery

This item will be dispatched by Royal Mail, DPD courier or UPS courier.

The estimated delivery time for this item is usually 1-3 working days when ordered before 14:00, Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays).

Orders that are placed before 14:00 on a working day are usually dispatched on the same day; for orders placed outside this timeframe, they are normally dispatched the next working day.

UK Delivery Charges

Certain orders delivered to the UK are subject to a delivery charge; refer to the table below for more information. Please note that all values are listed exclusive of VAT.

Please note: orders to NON-mainland UK and the Scottish highlands may be subject to an additional delivery charge, dependent on the size and value of the order.

What is EN 388?

You might have noticed that this product adheres to EN standard EN 388. EN standards ensure that the product you are buying meets the safety standards of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the highest standards organisation recognised by and working on behalf of the European Union. To pass any EN standard, a PPE product must undergo some of the most rigorous safety tests around.

There are many EN standards that our gloves adhere to. However, the EN standard that we’re concerned about here is EN 388. EN 388 stands for Mechanical Resistance, and informs you of your gloves' resistance to abrasion, cuts, tears and punctures.

How Do I Read the EN 388 Score?

Simply speaking, the higher the score that this product achieves, the better the product will be at resisting that hazard. Products will score between Level 0 and Level 4 for abrasion, tears and punctures, and if they weren’t tested for that hazard you will see N/A written instead of a number.

Cuts are a little different and, with the EN 388 standard rewritten in 2016, it means that gloves will either be tested to cut resistance or ISO cut resistance (sometimes called TDM cut resistance). Gloves tested to cut resistance will score between Level 0 and Level 5, and gloves tested to ISO cut resistance will achieve a score between Level A and Level F with the higher letter offering better cut protection.

Where Can I Find Out More?

This is just a brief overview of EN standard EN 388 so you know where you are standing. For further information, you can see the Introductory EN 388 Blog in our Knowledge Centre.