Title 21: Food and Drugs
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/ Subpart C - General Hospital and Personal Use Monitoring Devices / § 880.2900 Clinical color change thermometer.
§ 880.2900 Clinical color change thermometer.
(a) Identification. A clinical color change thermometer is a disposable device used to measure a patient's oral, rectal, or axillary (armpit) body temperature. The device records body temperature by use of heat sensitive chemicals which are sealed at the end of a plastic or metal strip. Body heat causes a stable color change in the heat sensitive chemicals.
(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 § 880.9.