21 CFR § 862.1775 - Uric acid test system.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s862.1775"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "21 CFR § 862.1775 - Uric acid test system."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "862.1775"
section_name: "Uric acid test system."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "MEDICAL DEVICES"
part_number: "862"
part_name: "CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY DEVICES"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 371."
regulatory_source: "52 FR 16122, May 1, 1987, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "862"
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# 862.1775 Uric acid test system.

(a) *Identification.* A uric acid test system is a device intended to measure uric acid in serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous renal and metabolic disorders, including renal failure, gout, leukemia, psoriasis, starvation or other wasting conditions, and of patients receiving cytotoxic drugs.

(b) *Classification.* Class I (general controls). The device, when it is solely intended for use as an acid reduction of ferric ion test, a phosphotungstate reduction test, a gasometric uricase test, an ultraviolet uricase test, or an oxygen rate uricase test, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 862.9.

[52 FR 16122, May 1, 1987, as amended at 84 FR 71797, Dec. 30, 2019; 85 FR 18445, Apr. 2, 2020]