ASB Announces New Forensic Standard

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ASB Announces New Forensic Standard

The executive director of the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education, Barry Logan brings more than 30 years of experience as a toxicologist. To support his peers and the medical industry as an experienced toxicologist, Barry Logan is active in multiple professional organizations, including having served as the president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences from 2013 to 2014.

Founded in 1948, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) is a professional society committed to the use of science to uphold law and order. To maintain the documentary standard for forensics, the AAFS established the Academy Standards Board (ASB). The ASB regularly publishes new standards for toxicologists in a variety of disciplines, and documents introducing these standards can be downloaded through its website.

In May 2019, the ASB released ANSI/ASB Standard 072, “Standard for the Validation of Procedures in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.” The document centers on how to validate procedures for casework and new equipment related to bloodstain pattern analysis, as well as how an entity may implement established processes within the BPA community for the first time.

Standard 072 was created by ASB’s Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) Consensus B through an American National Standards Institute-accredited consensus process. Work by the Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees in part formed the foundation of the new standard.