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Title 21 → Chapter I → Subchapter H → Part 874 → Subpart D → §874.3300

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Title 21: Food and Drugs
PART 874—EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT DEVICES
Subpart D—Prosthetic Devices

§874.3300 Hearing Aid.

(a) Identification. A hearing aid is wearable sound-amplifying device that is intended to compensate for impaired hearing. This generic type of device includes the air-conduction hearing aid and the bone-conduction hearing aid, but excludes the group hearing aid or group auditory trainer (§874.3320), master hearing aid (§874.3330), and tinnitus masker (§874.3400).

(b) Classification. (1) Class I (general controls) for the air-conduction hearing aid. The air-conduction hearing aid is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to §874.9.

(2) Class II for the bone-conduction hearing aid.

[51 FR 40389, Nov. 6, 1986, as amended at 65 FR 2316, Jan. 14, 2000]

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