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Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD),

the detection, identification, on-site evaluation, rendering safe, recovery, and final disposal of unexploded explosive ordnance; it may also include explosive ordnance which has become hazardous by damage or deterioration.
Discussion—1) This term is also sometimes colloquially applied to the same actions applied to improvised explosive devices (IEDs). (2) The term “render safe” involves procedures utilized by EOD technicians or bomb technicians to make an explosive device safe.

Committee
Interdisciplinary
Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/ASTM E1732-24e1 Standard Terminology Relating to Forensic Science. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2024. Source link
Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM E1732-24e1 Standard Terminology Relating to Forensic Science, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard is available from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org