Lidocaine Hydrochloride Paste belongs to the control of drugs, not medical devices. The supervision and management of medical devices regulations states: medical devices, refers to instruments, equipment, apparatus, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials and other similar or related items used directly or indirectly in the human body, including the required computer software; its utility is obtained mainly through physical and other means, not through pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, or although these means are involved but only in an ancillary role; and whose purpose is:
(i) the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, or mitigation of disease;
(ii) the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, mitigation, or functional compensation of injury;
(iii) the testing, substitution, modulation, or support of physiologic structures or physiologic processes;
(iv) the support or maintenance of life;
(v) pregnancy control;
(vi) providing information for medical or diagnostic purposes through the examination of samples from the human body.