[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 21, Volume 8]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 21CFR806.2]



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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS

 

CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 

                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)

 

PART 806_MEDICAL DEVICES; REPORTS OF CORRECTIONS AND REMOVALS--Table of 

Contents

 

                      Subpart A_General Provisions

 

Sec.  806.2  Definitions.



    As used in this part:

    (a) Act means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

    (b) Agency or FDA means the Food and Drug Administration.

    (c) Consignee means any person or firm that has received, purchased, 

or used a device subject to correction or removal.

    (d) Correction means the repair, modification, adjustment, 

relabeling, destruction, or inspection (including patient monitoring) of 

a device without its physical removal from its point of use to some 

other location.

    (e) Correction or removal report number means the number that 

uniquely identifies each report submitted.

    (f) Importer means, for the purposes of this part, any person who 

imports a device into the United States.

    (g) Manufacturer means any person who manufactures, prepares, 

propagates, compounds, assembles, or processes a device by chemical, 

physical, biological, or other procedures. The term includes any person 

who:

    (1) Repackages or otherwise changes the container, wrapper, or 

labeling of a device in furtherance of the distribution of the device 

from the original place of manufacture to the person who makes final 

delivery or sale to the ultimate user or consumer;

    (2) Initiates specifications for devices that are manufactured by a 

second party for subsequent distribution by the person initiating the 

specifications; or

    (3) Manufactures components or accessories which are devices that 

are ready to be used and are intended to be commercially distributed and 

are intended to be used as is, or are processed by a licensed 

practitioner or other qualified person to meet the needs of a particular 

patient.

    (h) Market withdrawal means a correction or removal of a distributed 

device that involves a minor violation of the act that would not be 

subject to legal action by FDA or that involves no violation of the act, 

e.g., normal stock rotation practices.

    (i) Removal means the physical removal of a device from its point of 

use to some other location for repair, modification, adjustment, 

relabeling, destruction, or inspection.

    (j) Risk to health means

    (1) A reasonable probability that use of, or exposure to, the 

product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death; or

    (2) That use of, or exposure to, the product may cause temporary or 

medically reversible adverse health consequences, or an outcome where 

the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.

    (k) Routine servicing means any regularly scheduled maintenance of a 

device, including the replacement of parts at the end of their normal 

life expectancy, e.g., calibration, replacement of batteries, and 

responses to normal wear and tear. Repairs of an unexpected nature, 

replacement of parts earlier than their normal life expectancy, or 

identical repairs or replacements of multiple units of a device are not 

routine servicing.

    (l) Stock recovery means the correction or removal of a device that 

has not been marketed or that has not left the direct control of the 

manufacturer, i.e., the device is located on the premises owned, or 

under the control of, the manufacturer, and no portion of the lot, 

model, code, or other relevant unit



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involved in the corrective or removal action has been released for sale 

or use.



[62 FR 27191, May 19, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 42232, Aug. 7, 1998]