Title 21: Food and Drugs
« Home / Title 21 - Food and Drugs--Volume 8 / CHAPTER I - FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) / SUBCHAPTER H - MEDICAL DEVICES
/ PART 866 - IMMUNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY DEVICES
/ Subpart C - Microbiology Devices / § 866.2440 Automated medium dispensing and stacking device.
§ 866.2440 Automated medium dispensing and stacking device.
(a) Identification. An automated medium dispensing and stacking device is a device intended for medical purposes to dispense a microbiological culture medium into petri dishes and then mechanically stack the petri dishes.
(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 § 866.9. The device is also exempt from the 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.