Regulations last checked for updates: May 01, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 878.4340 - Contact cooling system for aesthetic use.

(a) Identification. A contact cooling system for aesthetic use is a device that is a combination of a cooling pad associated with a vacuum or mechanical massager intended for the disruption of adipocyte cells intended for non-invasive aesthetic use.

(b) Classification. Class II (special controls). The special controls for this device is FDA's “Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff; Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Contact Cooling System for Aesthetic Use.” See § 878.1(e) for the availability of this guidance document.

[76 FR 6553, Feb. 7, 2011]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360l,371
source: 53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 878.4340