Organization of Scientific Area Committees

About OSAC

OSAC strengthens the nation’s use of forensic science by facilitating the development and promoting the use of high-quality, technically sound standards. These standards define minimum requirements, best practices, standard protocols and other guidance to help ensure that the results of forensic analysis are reliable and reproducible.

OSAC was created in 2014 to address a lack of discipline-specific forensic science standards. OSAC fills this gap by drafting proposed standards and sending them to standards developing organizations (SDOs), which further develop and publish them.

SOFT Support of OSAC Statement

The Society of Forensic Toxicologists has long supported its members in their efforts to provide quality results in all testing performed. The SOFT Board of Directors has written a statement of support for the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) registry of standards and encourages forensic toxicology laboratories to evaluate and implement the standards whenever possible.

Read the statement here