---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 878.4460"
title: "21"
number: "878.4460"
heading: "Non-powdered surgeon's glove."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/878.4460"
---

# §878.4460. Non-powdered surgeon's glove.

- (a) **Identification.** A non-powdered surgeon's glove is a device intended to be worn on the hands of operating room personnel to protect a surgical wound from contamination. A non-powdered surgeon's glove does not incorporate powder for purposes other than manufacturing. The final finished glove includes only residual powder from manufacturing.
- (b) **Classification.** Class I (general controls).

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, as amended at 66 FR 46952, Sept. 10, 2001; 81 FR 91730, Dec. 19, 2016]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, as amended at 66 FR 46952, Sept. 10, 2001; 81 FR 91730, Dec. 19, 2016]