---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 862.1270"
title: "21"
number: "862.1270"
heading: "Estrogens (total, in pregnancy) test system."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/862.1270"
---

# §862.1270. Estrogens (total, in pregnancy) test system.

- (a) **Identification.** As estrogens (total, in pregnancy) test system is a device intended to measure total estrogens in plasma, serum, and urine during pregnancy. The device primarily measures estrone plus estradiol. Measurements of total estrogens are used to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of fetoplacental distress in certain cases of high-risk pregnancy.
- (b) **Classification.** Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in [subpart E of part 807](/cfr/21/part807-subpartE.md) of this chapter subject to [§ 862.9](/cfr/21/862.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 16122, May 1, 1987, as amended at 65 FR 2306, Jan. 14, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l, 371.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 16122, May 1, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 16122, May 1, 1987, as amended at 65 FR 2306, Jan. 14, 2000]