510(k) K831620
Clearance Details
- Decision
- SESE (Substantially Equivalent)
- Decision Date
- July 28, 1983
- Date Received
- May 19, 1983
- Clearance Type
- Traditional
- Expedited Review
- No
- Third Party Review
- No
Device Classification
- Device Name
- General Purpose Reagent
- Device Class
- Class I
- Regulation Number
- 864.4010
- Review Panel
- PA
- Submission Type
A general purpose reagent is a chemical reagent that has general laboratory application, that is used to collect, prepare, and examine specimens from the human body for diagnostic purposes, and that is not labeled or otherwise intended for a specific diagnostic application. It may be either an individual substance, or multiple substances reformulated, which, when combined with or used in conjunction with an appropriate analyte specific reagent (ASR) and other general purpose reagents, is part of a diagnostic test procedure or system constituting a finished in vitro diagnostic (IVD) test.