---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 864.3300"
title: "21"
number: "864.3300"
heading: "Cytocentrifuge."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/864.3300"
---

# §864.3300. Cytocentrifuge.

- (a) **Identification.** A cytocentrifuge is a centrifuge used to concentrate cells from biological cell suspensions (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid) and to deposit these cells on a glass microscope slide for cytological examination.
- (b) **Classification.** Class I (general controls). This device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in [subpart E of part 807](/cfr/21/part807-subpartE.md) of this chapter subject to the limitations in [§ 864.9](/cfr/21/864.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 60588, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 54 FR 25044, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38789, July 25, 2001]

### Authority

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

### Amendments

[45 FR 60588, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 54 FR 25044, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38789, July 25, 2001]