---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 864.5850"
title: "21"
number: "864.5850"
heading: "Automated slide spinner."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/864.5850"
---

# §864.5850. Automated slide spinner.

- (a) **Identification.** An automated slide spinner is a device that prepares automatically a blood film on a microscope slide using a small amount of peripheral blood (blood circulating in one of the body's extremities, such as the arm).
- (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 60603, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 54 FR 25045, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38790, July 25, 2001]

### Authority

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

### Amendments

[45 FR 60603, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 54 FR 25045, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38790, July 25, 2001]