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title: "21 CFR §864.6700"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-864.6700"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "864"

part_subject: "HEMATOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY DEVICES"

subpart_code: "G"

subpart_subject: "Manual Hematology Devices"

section_number: "864.6700"

section_subject: "Erythrocyte sedimentation rate test."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 864.6700"

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 erythrocyte sedimentation rate test is a device that measures the length of time required for the red cells in a blood sample to fall a specified distance or a device that measures the degree of sedimentation taking place in a given length of time. An increased rate indicates tissue damage or inflammation.

(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). This device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 864.9.

§864.6700 - Erythrocyte sedimentation rate test.