---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 884.4260"
title: "21"
number: "884.4260"
heading: "Hygroscopic Laminaria cervical dilator."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/884.4260"
---

# §884.4260. Hygroscopic Laminaria cervical dilator.

- (a) **Identification.** A hygroscopic Laminaria cervical dilator is a device designed to dilate (stretch open) the cervical os by cervical insertion of a conical and expansible material made from the root of a seaweed (Laminaria digitata or Laminaria japonica). The device is used to induce abortion.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (performance standards).

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 45 FR 12684, Feb. 26, 1980, unless otherwise noted.