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Standard for Report Content in Forensic Toxicology
This document delineates the requirements for reporting results from forensic toxicology analyses. Specifically, it is intended for the subdisciplines of human performance toxicology (e.g., driving- under-the-influence of alcohol or drugs and drug-facilitated crimes), postmortem ...
Standard for the Analytical Scope and Sensitivity of Forensic Toxicological Testing of...
This document delineates the minimum requirements for target analytes and analytical sensitivity for the forensic toxicological testing of blood specimens collected in medicolegal death investigations. This document does not cover the analysis of urine, tissues, or other specimen...
Wildlife Forensics General Standards
This document provides minimum standards and recommendations for practicing wildlife forensic analysts. This document covers good laboratory practices, evidence handling, and training as well as considerations of taxonomy and reference collections that are specific to wildlife fo...
Wildlife Forensics Morphology Standards
This document provides minimum standards for wildlife forensic analysts in the subdiscipline of morphology.
Report Writing in Wildlife Forensics: Morphology and Genetics
This document describes the information to be provided in formal written reports of wildlife forensic examinations for use in legal proceedings. Requirements for both genetic and morphological examination reports are covered. Forensic reports serve a variety of audiences, and mus...
Wildlife Forensics Validation Standards—STR Analysis
This document provides minimum standards and recommendations for validating new nuclear STR (short tandem repeat) markers for use in wildlife forensic DNA laboratories where the STR genotyping method has already been validated.
Wildlife Forensics Validation Standard—Validating New Primers for Sequencing
This document provides minimum requirements and recommendations for validating new primers for mitochondrial haplotyping and/or taxonomic identification via sequencing in wildlife forensic DNA laboratories where the sequencing (Sanger) method has already been validated.