Current through September 30, 2024
Section 880.6740 - Vacuum-powered body fluid suction apparatus(a)Identification. A vacuum-powered body fluid suction apparatus is a device used to aspirate, remove, or sample body fluids. The device is powered by an external source of vacuum. This generic type of device includes vacuum regulators, vacuum collection bottles, suction catheters and tips, connecting flexible aspirating tubes, rigid suction tips, specimen traps, noninvasive tubing, and suction regulators (with gauge).(b)Classification. Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to § 880.9 .45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59229, Nov. 3, 1998