# Medical Devices; Apnea Monitor; Special Controls
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2002-07-17 · Effective 2002-10-15 · 67 FR 46851
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-17957
- **Category:** fda-device
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 46851
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 868
- **Publication date:** 2002-07-17
- **Effective date:** 2002-10-15
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 00N-1457
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a final rule to create a separate classification for the apnea monitor. The device currently is included in the generic type of device called breathing frequency monitors. The apnea monitor will remain in class II, but will be subject to a special control. The special control is an FDA guidance document that identifies minimum performance, testing, and labeling recommendations for the device. Following the effective date of this final classification rule, any firm submitting a 510(k) premarket notification for a "new" apnea monitor will need to address the issues covered in the special control guidance. However, the firm need only show that its device meets the recommendations of the guidance or in some other way provides equivalent assurances of safety and effectiveness. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA is announcing the availability of the guidance document that will serve as the special control. FDA is taking these actions because it believes that they are necessary to provide reasonable assurance of the safety and effectiveness of the apnea monitor.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/07/17/02-17957/medical-devices-apnea-monitor-special-controls)
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