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title: "21 CFR §874.3300"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-874.3300"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "874"

part_subject: "EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT DEVICES"

subpart_code: "D"

subpart_subject: "Prosthetic Devices"

section_number: "874.3300"

section_subject: "Hearing Aid."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 874.3300"

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 hearing aid is wearable sound-amplifying device that is intended to compensate for impaired hearing. This generic type of device includes the air-conduction hearing aid and the bone-conduction hearing aid, but excludes the group hearing aid or group auditory trainer (§ 874.3320), master hearing aid (§ 874.3330), and tinnitus masker (§ 874.3400).

(b)Classification. (1) Class I (general controls) for the air-conduction hearing aid. The air-conduction hearing aid is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to § 874.9.

(2)Class II for the bone-conduction hearing aid.

§874.3300 - Hearing Aid.