Verification

Related terms

Accreditation

Formal recognition by a standards body (such as UKAS in the UK, A2LA in the US, or NABL in India) that a...

Calibration

A steganalysis technique that estimates the cover image statistics by cropping or decompressing and re-compressing the test image to produce a reference....

ISO 9001

The international standard for quality management systems published by the International Organization for Standardization. Certification means the organisation has documented and implemented...

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...

Quality Assurance (QA)

The management system that ensures QC actually happens and stays effective over time: written SOPs, training and competence records, internal audits, document...

Quality Control (QC)

The day-to-day activities that verify a single batch of results is reliable: method blanks, certified-reference-material runs, duplicate injections, spike recoveries and control-chart...

SWGDOC and Other SWGs

Scientific Working Groups (SWGDOC for questioned documents, SWGDRUG for drugs, SWGSTAIN for bloodstain, SWGFEX for fire and explosion, SWGFAST for fingerprints) that...

Traceability and Uncertainty

Metrological traceability is an unbroken chain of calibrations linking a result to a stated reference (CRM, NPL India primary standard, NIST). Measurement...

Validation

The process of establishing through systematic testing that a method does what it claims to do, within defined conditions and with a...

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• Quality Control Management in Forensic InstitutionsConfirmation that a method's performance, when implemented locally, meets the validated specifications. Less work than validation; required when a lab adopts a...