ASCLD-LAB
Definition
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board; the legacy US forensic accreditation body before its merger into ANAB in 2016. Its supplemental requirements survive in the current ANAB forensic programme.
Related terms
- ANAB
- The American National Standards Institute National Accreditation Board, formed after the merger of ASCLD-LAB with ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board in 2016. Now...
- CTS (Collaborative Testing Services)
- A Herndon, Virginia-based proficiency testing provider offering fire debris analysis and explosives proficiency schemes. CTS distributes evidence-can samples containing burned substrate with...
- Evaluative Reporting
- A framework for expressing forensic conclusions in terms of the probability of the evidence given the prosecution hypothesis versus the defence hypothesis...
- ILAC MRA
- International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Arrangement; a network of signatory accreditation bodies (NABL, ANAB, UKAS, DAkkS, COFRAC, and others) whose accreditation...
- ISO/IEC 17025:2017
- The international standard specifying general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Covers management (document control, non-conforming work, audits) and...
- NABL T-126
- Technical Requirement T-126 issued by India's National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories: the discipline-specific criteria for forensic science laboratories, covering...
- OSAC (Organisation of Scientific Area Committees)
- A NIST-supported network of working groups that develops forensic science standards and guidelines. The OSAC Fire Investigation and Explosives Subcommittees produce method...
- Proficiency Testing (PT)
- A quality assurance mechanism in which laboratories analyse blind samples distributed by an external scheme coordinator and have their results compared against...
- UKAS
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service; the sole national accreditation body for the UK and ILAC MRA signatory. Accredits forensic science providers under ISO/IEC...
Explained in
- Quality Systems: ISO 17025, NABL, ANAB, UKAS and Proficiency TestingAmerican Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board; the legacy US forensic accreditation body before its merger into ANAB in 2016. I...