part_subject: "CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY DEVICES"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Clinical Chemistry Test Systems"
section_number: "862.1025"
section_subject: "Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) test system."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 862.1025"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 800 to 1299"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)Identification. An adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) test system is a device intended to measure adrenocorticotropic hormone in plasma and serum. ACTH measurements are used in the differential diagnosis and treatment of certain disorders of the adrenal glands such as Cushing's syndrome, adrenocortical insufficiency, and the ectopic ACTH syndrome.