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title: "21 CFR §864.7525"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-864.7525"

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: "H"

subpart_subject: "Hematology Kits and Packages"

section_number: "864.7525"

section_subject: "Heparin assay."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 864.7525"

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 heparin assay is a device used to determine the level of the anticoagulant heparin in the patient's circulation. These assays are quantitative clotting time procedures using the effect of heparin on activated coagulation factor X (Stuart factor) or procedures based on the neutralization of heparin by protamine sulfate (a protein that neutralizes heparin).

(b)Classification. Class II (performance standards).

§864.7525 - Heparin assay.