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title: "21 CFR §886.4790"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-886.4790"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "8"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "H"

subchapter_subject: "MEDICAL DEVICES"

part_code: "886"

part_subject: "OPHTHALMIC DEVICES"

subpart_code: "E"

subpart_subject: "Surgical Devices"

section_number: "886.4790"

section_subject: "Ophthalmic sponge."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 886.4790"

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. An ophthalmic sponge is a device that is an absorbant sponge, pad, or spear made of folded gauze, cotton, cellulose, or other material intended to absorb fluids from the operative field in ophthalmic surgery.

(b)Classification. Class II.

§886.4790 - Ophthalmic sponge.