Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 30, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 315.2 - Definition.

For purposes of this part, diagnostic radiopharmaceutical means:

(a) An article that is intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of a disease or a manifestation of a disease in humans and that exhibits spontaneous disintegration of unstable nuclei with the emission of nuclear particles or photons; or

(b) Any nonradioactive reagent kit or nuclide generator that is intended to be used in the preparation of such article as defined in paragraph (a) of this section.

authority: 21 U.S.C. 321,331,351,352,353,355,371,374,379e; sec. 122, Pub. L. 105-115, 111 Stat. 2322 (21 U.S.C. 355 note)
source: 64 FR 26667, May 17, 1999, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 315.2