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The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB) is a Missouri-based not-for-profit that "offers voluntary accreditation to public and private crime laboratories" around the world.
The main objectives of the ASCLD/LAB are:
- to improve the quality of laboratory services provided to the criminal justice system.
- to adopt, develop and maintain criteria which may be used by a laboratory to assess its level of performance and to strengthen its operation.
- to provide an independent, impartial, and objective system by which laboratories can benefit from a total operational review.
- to offer to the general public and to users of laboratory services a means of identifying those laboratories which have demonstrated that they meet established standards. (Full article...)
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