Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 882.5235 - Aversive conditioning device.

(a) Identification. An aversive conditioning device is an instrument used to administer an electrical shock or other noxious stimulus to a patient to modify undesirable behavioral characteristics.

(b) Classification. Class II (special controls), except for electrical stimulation devices for self-injurious or aggressive behavior. Electrical stimulation devices for self-injurious or aggressive behavior are banned. See § 895.105 of this chapter.

[44 FR 51730, Sept. 4, 1979, as amended at 85 FR 13354, Mar. 6, 2020]
authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 44 FR 51730, Sept. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 882.5235