part_subject: "CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY DEVICES"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Clinical Chemistry Test Systems"
section_number: "862.1685"
section_subject: "Thyroxine-binding globulin test system."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 862.1685"
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. A thyroxine-binding globulin test system is a device intended to measure thyroxine (thyroid)-binding globulin (TBG), a plasma protein which binds thyroxine, in serum and plasma. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases.