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title: "21 CFR §864.8150"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-864.8150"

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: "I"

subpart_subject: "Hematology Reagents"

section_number: "864.8150"

section_subject: "Calibrator for cell indices."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 864.8150"

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 calibrator for cell indices is a device that approximates whole blood or certain blood cells and that is used to set an instrument intended to measure mean cell volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), or other cell indices. It is a suspension of particles or cells whose size, shape, concentration, and other characteristics have been precisely and accurately determined.

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

§864.8150 - Calibrator for cell indices.