[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 8]
[Revised as of April 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR878.4680]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 878_GENERAL AND PLASTIC SURGERY DEVICES--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart E_Surgical Devices
 
Sec. 878.4680  Nonpowered, single patient, portable suction apparatus.

    (a) Identification. A nonpowered, single patient, portable suction 
apparatus is a device that consists of a manually operated plastic, 
disposable evacuation system intended to provide a vacuum for suction 
drainage of surgical wounds.
    (b) Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt 
from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of 
this chapter subject to Sec. 878.9.

[53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, as amended at 65 FR 2318, Jan. 14, 2000]