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The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science

OSAC Registry

The OSAC Registry is a repository of selected published and proposed standards for forensic science. These documents contain minimum requirements, best practices, standard protocols, terminology, or other information to promote valid, reliable, and reproducible forensic results.

The standards on this Registry have undergone a technical and quality review process that actively encourages feedback from forensic science practitioners, research scientists, human factors experts, statisticians, legal experts, and the public. Placement on the Registry requires a consensus (as evidenced by 2/3 vote or more) of both the OSAC subcommittee that proposed the inclusion of the standard and the Forensic Science Standards Board.

OSAC encourages the forensic science community to implement the published and proposed standards on the Registry to help advance the practice of forensic science.

The OSAC Registry includes two types of standards:

SDO-published standards have completed the consensus process of an external standards developing organization (SDO) and have been approved by OSAC for placement on the Registry.
OSAC Proposed Standards have been drafted by OSAC and given to an SDO for further development and publication. They have undergone the same OSAC technical and quality review process as the SDO-published standards on the Registry. Each OSAC Proposed Standard may be revised during the SDO development process; once available, an SDO-published standard will replace the OSAC Proposed Standard on the Registry after completing the technical and quality review at OSAC. To help fill the standards gap while an SDO completes its process, OSAC encourages the forensic science community to implement the OSAC Proposed Standards.

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Learn how to implement the standards on the OSAC Registry and share your implementation progress.

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Export results (CSV)

More info	Designation Number	Title	OSAC Subcommittee(s)	Document Owner	Status	Date added to the Registry Sort ascending
	ANSI/ASB Standard 029-19	ANSI/ASB Standard 029-19 Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics: Morphology and Genetics, 2019, 1st Ed.	Wildlife Forensic Biology	Academy Standards Board	OSAC Registry, SDO Published Standard	03/02/2021
Title ANSI/ASB Standard 029-19 Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics: Morphology and Genetics, 2019, 1st Ed. Standard Number ANSI/ASB Standard 029-19 Date added to the registry 03/02/2021 Document Owner Academy Standards Board OSAC Committee(s) Wildlife Forensic Biology Status OSAC Registry SDO Published Standard Public Comment Document Files ASB 029 Comments SDO Published Standard Url https://www.aafs.org/asb-standard/report-writing-wildlife-forensics-morphology-and-genetics Factsheet Checklist
	ANSI/ASB Standard 019-19	ANSI/ASB Standard 019-19 Wildlife Forensics General Standards, 2019, 1st Ed.	Wildlife Forensic Biology	Academy Standards Board	OSAC Registry, SDO Published Standard	03/02/2021
Title ANSI/ASB Standard 019-19 Wildlife Forensics General Standards, 2019, 1st Ed. Standard Number ANSI/ASB Standard 019-19 Date added to the registry 03/02/2021 Document Owner Academy Standards Board OSAC Committee(s) Wildlife Forensic Biology Status OSAC Registry SDO Published Standard Public Comment Document Files ASB 019 Comment Adjudication Form SDO Published Standard Url https://www.aafs.org/asb-standard/wildlife-forensics-general-standards Factsheet Checklist
	ANSI/ASB Standard 047-19	ANSI/ASB Standard 047-19 Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, 2019, 1st Ed.	Wildlife Forensic Biology	Academy Standards Board	OSAC Registry, SDO Published Standard	06/03/2020
Title ANSI/ASB Standard 047-19 Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing, 2019, 1st Ed. Standard Number ANSI/ASB Standard 047-19 Date added to the registry 06/03/2020 Document Owner Academy Standards Board OSAC Committee(s) Wildlife Forensic Biology Status OSAC Registry SDO Published Standard SDO Published Standard Url https://www.aafs.org/asb-standard/wildlife-forensics-validation-standard-validating-new-primers-sequencing Factsheet Checklist
	ANSI/ASB Standard 028-19	ANSI/ASB Standard 028-19 Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, 2019, 1st Ed.	Wildlife Forensic Biology	Academy Standards Board	OSAC Registry, SDO Published Standard	06/03/2020
Title ANSI/ASB Standard 028-19 Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards, 2019, 1st Ed. Standard Number ANSI/ASB Standard 028-19 Date added to the registry 06/03/2020 Document Owner Academy Standards Board OSAC Committee(s) Wildlife Forensic Biology Status OSAC Registry SDO Published Standard SDO Published Standard Url https://www.aafs.org/asb-standard/wildlife-forensics-morphology-standards Factsheet Checklist

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