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This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and those...
Two New Standards Placed on OSAC Registry The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) is excited to announce the Forensic Science...
In honor of our colleague, Sharon Nakich, who passed away in March after a short battle with cancer, the FSSB has developed a new peer-to-peer award that is...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
Today, the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science ( OSAC) opens the thirty-day comment period for ASTM E2917-19: Standard Practice for...
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Please join us for the upcoming Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) Public Update Meeting taking place at NIST in...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), have developed a...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
One of the nation’s leading crime laboratories, the Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC), has announced that it will voluntarily adopt standards approved by...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletinprovides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably released into the laboratory environment. When...
NIST has published Draft NISTIR 8225, Scientific Foundation Reviews. This publication describes NIST’s approach to conducting scientific foundation reviews...
At forensic science labs, analysts literally weigh the evidence. They also measure it in other ways. They use microscopes, DNA profiling kits, chemical...
One of the largest software libraries in the world just grew larger. The National Software Reference Library (NSRL), which archives copies of the world’s most...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has released its 2018 Annual Report. OSAC continues to make steady progress toward...
In 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a study in which 108 forensic laboratories interpreted the same set of DNA evidence...
DNA is often considered the most reliable form of forensic evidence, and this reputation is based on the way DNA experts use statistics. When they compare...
The drug overdose epidemic currently gripping the nation is so tenacious in part because it’s being driven by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that comes in many...