Regulations last checked for updates: May 01, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 880.2920 - Clinical mercury thermometer.

(a) Identification. A clinical mercury thermometer is a device used to measure oral, rectal, or axillary (armpit) body temperature using the thermal expansion of mercury.

(b) Classification. Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to § 880.9.

[45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59228, Nov. 3, 1998]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 45 FR 69682, Oct. 21, 1980, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 880.2920