21 CFR § 872.3100 - Dental amalgamator.

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title: "21 CFR § 872.3100 - Dental amalgamator."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "872.3100"
section_name: "Dental amalgamator."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
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subchapter_name: "MEDICAL DEVICES"
part_number: "872"
part_name: "DENTAL DEVICES"
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authority: "21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 371."
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# 872.3100 Dental amalgamator.

(a) *Identification.* A dental amalgamator is a device, usually AC-powered, intended to mix, by shaking, amalgam capsules containing mercury and dental alloy particles, such as silver, tin, zinc, and copper. The mixed dental amalgam material is intended for filling dental caries.

(b) *Classification.* Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 872.9.

[55 FR 48439, Nov. 20, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 63008, Dec. 7, 1994; 66 FR 38797, July 25, 2001]