---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 872.6770"
title: "21"
number: "872.6770"
heading: "Cartridge syringe."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/872.6770"
---

# §872.6770. Cartridge syringe.

- (a) **Identification.** A cartridge syringe is a device intended to inject anesthetic agents subcutaneously or intramuscularly. The device consists of a metal syringe body into which a disposable, previously filled, glass carpule (a cylindrical cartridge) containing anesthetic is placed. After attaching a needle to the syringe body and activating the carpule by partially inserting the plunger on the syringe, the device is used to administer an injection to the patient.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (special 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 the limitations in [§ 872.9](/cfr/21/872.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 30097, Aug. 12, 1987, as amended at 84 FR 71813, Dec. 30, 2019]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 52 FR 30097, Aug. 12, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 30097, Aug. 12, 1987, as amended at 84 FR 71813, Dec. 30, 2019]