ENFSI DNA WG
Definition
ENFSI DNA Working Group; the European body that publishes the DNA Profiling Best Practice Manual, the Evaluative Reporting Guideline, and coordinates the EU-wide proficiency testing scheme for forensic DNA laboratories.
- Full name
- ENFSI DNA Working Group
- Publishes
- DNA Profiling Best Practice Manual
- Also publishes
- Evaluative Reporting Guideline
- Also runs
- EU-wide proficiency testing scheme
Common questions
What does the proficiency testing scheme actually check?+
Member laboratories periodically analyse the same blind samples and report results back to the working group, which compares outcomes across labs to catch systematic errors in typing, interpretation, or reporting before they surface in casework.
How does the DNA WG's guidance relate to national accreditation requirements?+
ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation sets the general quality-management framework a lab must meet, while the DNA WG manuals supply the DNA-specific technical content, such as validation and interpretation practice, that an assessor checks the lab against within that framework.
Related terms
- ISO 21043
- The ISO standard for the forensic science process (recognition, recording, collection, examination, interpretation, reporting), complementing ISO/IEC 17025 by addressing the forensic-specific workflow...
- 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
- National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, a constituent board of the Quality Council of India. It is the sole accrediting...
- 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...
- SWGDAM
- Scientific Working Group for DNA Analysis Methods; the US body that publishes interpretation guidelines and validation requirements for forensic DNA laboratories operating...