Regulations last checked for updates: May 01, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 878.4760 - Removable skin staple.

(a) Identification. A removable skin staple is a staple-like device intended to connect external tissues temporarily to aid healing. It is not absorbable.

(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 § 878.9.

[53 FR 23872, June 24, 1988, as amended at 65 FR 2318, Jan. 14, 2000]
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 878.4760