Title 21

SECTION 868.5795

868.5795 Tracheal tube cleaning brush.

§ 868.5795 Tracheal tube cleaning brush.

(a) Identification. A tracheal tube cleaning brush is a device consisting of a brush with plastic bristles intended to clean tracheal cannula devices after their removal from patients.

(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 § 868.9. If the device is not labeled or otherwise represented as sterile, it is exempt from the current 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.

[51 FR 40388, Nov. 6, 1986, as amended at 66 FR 38795, July 25, 2001]

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