ACS recognizes the importance of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) under the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the former National ... The ...

OSAC has developed hundreds of standards for everything from how crime labs should be run to how scientists should describe evidence in court. John Paul "JP" Jones, forensic science standards ...

and five years since federal researchers began issuing exacting new standards designed to make forensic science more reliable. But only half of the more than 400 largest crime labs across the country ...

The legislation requires that all forensic science labs receiving federal funding be accredited according to rigorous new standards and oversight, and that forensic scientists meet basic ...