# K161180: Oak Ridge Products Sharps Containers

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Oak Ridge Products, LLC
- Decided: Jun 9, 2016 after 43 days
- Product code: MMK (Container, Sharps)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 880.5570
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 2 generations back to K943575 (1994). 4 ancestors in all.
3 later devices descend from it; 1 cites it directly.
0 of 8 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K130281: Oak Ridge Products Sharp Container, Oak Ridge Products, LLC (2013) Summary page 4.

## Most influential descendants
- K180984: Maxcon Sharps Container (2019), 2 descendants of its own
- K253773: Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-1F1); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-1F4); Guanhong Sharps Container (GH-6FA); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-2FR); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-8FR); Guanhong Sharps Container (GH-3FS); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-15FS); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-27FS); Guanhong Sharps Container (GH-5FSW); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-3FT); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-4FT); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-5FT); Guanhong Sharps Container (GHW-8FT); Guanhong (2026), 0 descendants of its own
- K253222: Gongdong Sharps Container (SCR-01Q, SCR-01G, SCR-03G) (2025), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
Oak Ridge Products Sharps containers are a single-use, disposable, non-sterile containers intended to be used for healthcare purposes for safe disposal of hazardous sharps such as hypodermic needles, syringes, lancets and blood needles. The target population is for trained healthcare professionals. All the containers are intended to be used in areas where there is no unsupervised patient access.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K161180
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology