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# RADIOACTIVE IODINE-125 SOURCES (K912170)

_Best Industries · IWI · Aug 9, 1991 · Radiology · SESE_

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## Device Facts

- **Applicant:** Best Industries
- **Product Code:** [IWI](/submissions/RA/subpart-f%E2%80%94therapeutic-devices/IWI.md)
- **Decision Date:** Aug 9, 1991
- **Decision:** SESE
- **Submission Type:** Traditional
- **Regulation:** 21 CFR 892.5730
- **Device Class:** Class 2
- **Review Panel:** Radiology

## Regulatory Identification

A radionuclide brachytherapy source is a device that consists of a radionuclide which may be enclosed in a sealed container made of gold, titanium, stainless steel, or platinum and intended for medical purposes to be placed onto a body surface or into a body cavity or tissue as a source of nuclear radiation for therapy.

## Special Controls

*Classification.* Class II (special controls). A prostate seeding kit intended for use with a radionuclide brachytherapy source only is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 892.9.

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