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title: "21 CFR §880.5860"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-880.5860"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "880"

part_subject: "GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PERSONAL USE DEVICES"

subpart_code: "F"

subpart_subject: "General Hospital and Personal Use Therapeutic Devices"

section_number: "880.5860"

section_subject: "Piston syringe."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 880.5860"

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 piston syringe is a device intended for medical purposes that consists of a calibrated hollow barrel and a movable plunger. At one end of the barrel there is a male connector (nozzle) for fitting the female connector (hub) of a hypodermic single lumen needle. The device is used to inject fluids into, or withdraw fluids from, the body.

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

§880.5860 - Piston syringe.