part_subject: "GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PERSONAL USE DEVICES"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "General Hospital and Personal Use Monitoring Devices"
section_number: "880.2920"
section_subject: "Clinical mercury thermometer."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 880.2920"
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 clinical mercury thermometer is a device used to measure oral, rectal, or axillary (armpit) body temperature using the thermal expansion of mercury.
(b)Classification. Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to § 880.9.