(a) Identification.
         An automated slide stainer is a device used to stain histology, cytology, and hematology slides for diagnosis.
     
    
        
        (b) Classification.
         Class I (general controls). This device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of  part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in  § 864.9.
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        [45 FR 60591, Sept. 12, 1980, as amended at 54 FR 25044, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38789, July 25, 2001]