BUNDLE Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories, 16th Edition - Print and Guidance

This bundle provides access to the 16th edition of Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories and Guidance for Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories.

The 16th edition of Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories features new and revised requirements in areas such as employee qualification, facility monitoring of potentially fabricated documents, and the identification of non-chain of custody cases.

Significant changes in the 16th edition include:

• The updated Quality Systems Essentials template has been incorporated into the 16th edition, including updated language and new sections on key concepts and key terms and examples of objective evidence.
• The 16th edition has been expanded to allow for forensic genetic genealogy testing activities throughout the edition.
• New standards have been created to allow individuals wishing to serve as a laboratory director or technical leader whose experience was not accrued in an AABB-accredited laboratory to petition AABB to determine if their experience would be equivalent.

Guidance for Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories includes verbatim requirements from the RT Standards interspersed with guidance. Language from the RT Standards is presented; when there is appropriate guidance for that standard, the guidance language follows the standard with the heading “Guidance.” This format allows the reader to see both the requirement and the associated guidance side by side.

Please note that there is no guidance for some standards. The Relationship Testing Standards Committee has chosen to focus Guidance for Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories on those issues that may require additional context and/or examples to assist in attaining compliance with the Standards.

(2023, AABB, softcover, 118 pages, ISBN: 978-1-56395-481-8, and 2023, AABB, softcover, 174 pages)

Effective date: January 1, 2024
Nonmember price: $325
Member price: $262

Item Details (Print):

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Item Details (Guidance):

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