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Validation in Forensic Science: Guiding Principles for the Collection and Use of Validation Data

December 12, 2025
Author(s)
Henry Swofford, Steven Lund, Barbara Guttman, Erica Romsos, Johannes Soons, Melissa Taylor, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone, John Jones, Vincent Desiderio, John Butler, Sandra Koch, Robert Thompson, Gregory Fiumara, Edward Sisco, Kelly Sauerwein, Allison Getz, Robert Ramotowski
This document provides guidance to the forensic science community on method validation. Building on the definition of validation in ISO/IEC 17025, it explores the specific components of validation within a forensic science context and introduces five

OSAC Registry Implementation Survey: 2022 Report

March 2, 2023
Author(s)
Allison Getz
This report provides a detailed look at the implementation status of 95 standards that were posted on the OSAC Registry through June 2022. It also provides a comparison of the 2022 survey data with some of the findings from the 2021 OSAC Registry

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC AREA COMMITTEES (OSAC) FOR FORENSIC SCIENCE

November 4, 2022
Author(s)
John Jones, Allison Getz, Donna J. Sirk
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science in 2014 to address a lack of discipline-specific forensic science standards. OSAC's mission is to strengthen

OSAC Registry Implementation Survey: 2021 Report

February 21, 2022
Author(s)
Allison Getz
This report provides a detailed look at the respondents and the implementation status of 46 standards that were posted on the OSAC Registry as of March 2021. It also serves to create a baseline to measure the year-over-year progress in the implementation
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