ENFSI FAWG
Definition
The ENFSI Forensic Anthropology Working Group, which produces the ENFSI Best Practice Manual for Forensic Anthropology and operates an annual External Quality Assessment (EQA) proficiency testing scheme across European national forensic science institutes.
- Full name
- ENFSI Forensic Anthropology Working Group
- Key output
- ENFSI Best Practice Manual for Forensic Anthropology
- Also runs
- Annual External Quality Assessment (EQA) proficiency scheme
- Membership
- European national forensic science institutes
Common questions
What does the annual EQA proficiency scheme actually test?+
Participating laboratories analyse the same set of skeletal or case materials and submit independent findings, which the working group compares to identify inconsistencies in method or interpretation across member institutes before they affect real casework.
How does ENFSI FAWG relate to SWGANTH or the ABFA?+
SWGANTH and the ABFA are the equivalent US-based standards and certification bodies; FAWG is ENFSI's European counterpart, and the three operate independently with broadly comparable but not identical standards, so a report should specify which framework it was produced under.
Related terms
- ABFA Diplomate
- The American Board of Forensic Anthropology's practitioner certification, requiring a doctoral degree, three or more years of forensic casework, a reviewed case...
- BSA 2023 Section 79
- The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, which replaced the Indian Evidence Act 1872, governing expert testimony admissibility in India. Section 79 (formerly §...
- Daubert Standard
- The US federal evidentiary standard (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 1993) requiring that expert testimony be based on scientifically valid methods with...
- ISO 17020:2012
- The international standard for inspection bodies. Applies to forensic anthropology teams conducting scene recovery and exhumation, requiring documented procedures, personnel qualification evidence,...
- 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...
- OSAC Anthropology Subcommittee
- The Organisation of Scientific Area Committees' Anthropology Subcommittee, operating under NIST since 2014. Develops and publishes formal standards for forensic anthropology methods...
- Peer Review of Casework
- The ABFA 2017 position: every forensic anthropology report submitted to a court should be independently reviewed by a second qualified analyst before...
- Qualified-Opinion Framework
- The four-tier opinion scale used by forensic anthropologists for identification opinions: identification confirmed / consistent with / cannot exclude / excludes. Formalised...
- SWGANTH
- Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology. A US expert panel that produced guidance documents (2008-2013) on standards for forensic anthropological practice, now...