TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS

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

SUBCHAPTER H - MEDICAL DEVICES

PART 880 - GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PERSONAL USE DEVICES

subpart c - GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PERSONAL USE MONITORING DEVICES

880.2920 - Clinical mercury thermometer.

  (a) Identification. A clinical mercury thermometer is a device used to measure oral, rectal, or axillary (armpit) body temperature using the thermal expansion of mercury.

  (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 6968269737, Oct. 21, l980, as amended at 63 FR 59228, Nov. 3, 1998]