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The Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee focuses on standards and guidelines related to taxonomic identification, individualization, and geographic origin of non-human biological evidence based on morphological and genetic analyses.
ANSI/ASB Standard 019, Wildlife Forensics General Standards, First Edition, 2019 (added March 2, 2021).
ANSI/ASB Standard 028, Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, First Edition, 2019 (added June 3, 2020).
ANSI/ASB Standard 029, Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics, First Edition, 2019 (added March 2, 2021).
ANSI/ASB Standard 047, Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, First Edition, 2019 (added June 3, 2020).
OSAC 2021-N-0001, Wildlife Forensics Method-Collection of Known Samples from Domestic Mammals(added April 6, 2021) Note: ASB published an updated version of this document (ANSI/ASB 138) in May 2022 which is currently undergoing the Registry approval process.
OSAC 2021-S-0006, Standard for the Use of GenBank for Taxonomic Assignment of Wildlife (added November 2, 2021 and sent to ASB for further development and publication).
Published by a Standards Developing Organization (SDO) & Eligible for the OSAC Registry