part_subject: "IMMUNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY DEVICES"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "Microbiology Devices"
section_number: "866.2600"
section_subject: "Wood's fluorescent lamp."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 866.2600"
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 Wood's fluorescent lamp is a device intended for medical purposes to detect fluorescent materials (e.g., fluorescein pigment produced by certain microorganisms) as an aid in the identification of these microorganisms. The device aids in the diagnosis of disease.
(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 866.9. The device is also exempt from the good manufacturing practice requirements of the quality system regulation in part 820 of this chapter, with the exception of § 820.180, with respect to general requirements concerning records, and § 820.198, with respect to complaint files.