---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 886.5850"
title: "21"
number: "886.5850"
heading: "Sunglasses (nonprescription)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/886.5850"
---

# §886.5850. Sunglasses (nonprescription).

- (a) **Identification.** Sunglasses (nonprescription) are devices that consist of spectacle frames or clips with absorbing, reflective, tinted, polarizing, or photosensitized lenses intended to be worn by a person to protect the eyes from bright sunlight but not to provide refractive corrections. This device is usually available over-the-counter.
- (b) **Classification.** Class I (general 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 [§ 886.9](/cfr/21/886.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 33355, Sept. 2, 1987, as amended at 65 FR 2321, 2000]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 52 FR 33355, Sept. 2, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 33355, Sept. 2, 1987, as amended at 65 FR 2321, 2000]