---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 868.5430"
title: "21"
number: "868.5430"
heading: "Gas-scavenging apparatus."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/868.5430"
---

# §868.5430. Gas-scavenging apparatus.

- (a) **Identification.** A gas-scavenging apparatus is a device intended to collect excess anesthetic, analgesic, or trace gases or vapors from a patient's breathing system, ventilator, or extracorporeal pump-oxygenator, and to conduct these gases out of the area by means of an exhaust system.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (performance standards).

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 47 FR 31142, July 16, 1982, unless otherwise noted.