---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 888.1100"
title: "21"
number: "888.1100"
heading: "Arthroscope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/888.1100"
---

# §888.1100. Arthroscope.

- (a) **Identification.** An arthroscope is an electrically powered endoscope intended to make visible the interior of a joint. The arthroscope and accessories also is intended to perform surgery within a joint.
- (b) **Classification.**
  - (1) **Class II (performance standards).**
  - (2) **Class I for the following manual arthroscopic instruments—** cannulas, currettes, drill guides, forceps, gouges, graspers, knives, obturators, osteotomes, probes, punches, rasps, retractors, rongeurs, suture passers, suture knotpushers, suture punches, switching rods, and trocars. The devices subject to this [paragraph (b)(2)](#b-2) are 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 [§ 888.9](/cfr/21/888.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 33702, Sept. 4, 1987, as amended at 61 FR 1124, Jan. 16, 1996; 66 FR 38815, July 25, 2001]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 52 FR 33702, Sept. 4, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 33702, Sept. 4, 1987, as amended at 61 FR 1124, Jan. 16, 1996; 66 FR 38815, July 25, 2001]