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21 CFR 860.200: Purpose and applicability.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 21—Food and Drugs
- CHAPTER I—FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
- SUBCHAPTER H—MEDICAL DEVICES
- PART 860—MEDICAL DEVICE CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURES
- Subpart D—De Novo Classification
(a) The purpose of this part is to establish an efficient, transparent, and thorough process to facilitate De Novo classification into class I or class II for devices for which there is no legally marketed device on which to base a review of substantial equivalence and which meet the definition of class I or class II as described in section 513(a)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and § 860.3.
(b) De Novo requests can be submitted for a single device type:
(1) After receiving a not substantially equivalent determination in response to a premarket notification (510(k)), or
(2) If a person determines there is no legally marketed device upon which to base a determination of substantial equivalence.
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