OSAC Registry Approved Standards 

FY 2019

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science Registry 

serves as a trusted repository of high-quality, science-based standards and guidelines 

that address discipline-specific forensic science needs. Documents posted on the OSAC

Registry have been developed using a consensus-based process that allows 

participation and comment from all relevant stakeholders and have been assessed to 

be sound by forensic science practitioners, academic researchers, measurement 

scientists and statisticians. 

The following 19 documents were effective on the OSAC Registry at the end of fiscal 

year 2019 (ending September 30, 2019):

Disaster Victim Identification 

• ASB 007, Postmortem Impression Submission Strategy for Comprehensive Searches of Essential Automated 

Fingerprint Identification System Database (effective September 5, 2019).

• ASB 010, Forensic Anthropology in Disaster Victim Identification: Best Practice Recommendations for the 

Medicolegal Authority (effective September 5, 2019).

Facial Identification

• ASTM E3149-18 Standard Guide for Facial Image Comparison Feature List for Morphological Analysis (effective 

February 14, 2019).

Fire and Explosion Investigation

• NFPA 921:2017 Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations (effective November 1, 2017).

• NFPA 1033:2014 Standard for Professional Qualifications for Fire Investigator (effective December 22, 2016).

Materials (Trace)

• ASTM E3085-17 Standard Guide for Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in Forensic Tape 

Examinations (effective September 11, 2018).

• ASTM E1610-18 Standard Guide for Forensic Paint Analysis and Comparison (effective June 26, 2018).

• ASTM E2937-18 Standard Guide for Using Infrared Spectroscopy in Forensic Paint Examinations (effective June 

26, 2018).

• ASTM E2927-16e1 Standard Test Method for Determination of Trace Elements in Soda-Lime Glass Samples Using 

Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Forensic Comparisons (effective June 5, 2018).

• ASTM E2926-17 Standard Test Method for Forensic Comparison of Glass Using Micro X-ray Fluorescence (μ-XRF) 

Spectrometry (effective July 31, 2017).
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Odontology

• ADA 1088-2017D Human Identification by Comparative Dental Analysis (effective March 7, 2019).

• ANSI/ADA 1058-2010D Forensic Dental Data Set (effective February 14, 2019).

Seized Drugs

• ASTM E2329-17 Standard Practice for Identification of Seized Drugs (effective August 7, 2018).

• ASTM E2548-11e1 Standard Guide for Sampling Seized Drugs for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (effective 

April 3, 2017).

Toxicology

• ASB 017, Standard Practices for Measurement Traceability in Forensic Toxicology, First Edition, 2018 (effective 

June 18, 2019).

Interdisciplinary

• ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories

(effective June 18, 2019).

• ANSI/NIST ITL-1:2011 (Update 2013) Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric 

Information (effective July 13, 2017).

• ISO/IEC 17020:2012 Conformity Assessment – Requirements for the Operation of Various Types of Bodies 

Performing Inspection (effective April 18, 2017).

• ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories

(effective September 27, 2016).