Regulations last checked for updates: May 02, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 866.5800 - Seminal fluid (sperm) immunological test system.

(a) Identification. A seminal fluid (sperm) immunological test system is a device that consists of the reagents used for legal purposes to identify and differentiate animal and human semen. The test results may be used as court evidence in alleged instances of rape and other sex-related crimes.

(b) Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 866.9.

[54 FR 25047, June 12, 1989, as amended at 66 FR 38793, July 25, 2001]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 47 FR 50823, Nov. 9, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 866.5800