(a) Identification.
         An automated tissue processor is an automated system used to process tissue specimens for examination through fixation, dehydration, and infiltration.
     
    
        
        (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 25045, June 12, 1989; 66 FR 38789, July 25, 2001]