Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories, 17th edition – Print

The 17th edition of Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories features new and revised requirements in areas such as threats to technology infrastructure, monitoring of critical technologies, and maintenance of privacy requirements for information from publicly available databases.

Significant Changes to the 17th Edition

• New Standard 1.4.2 ensures that accredited organizations have plans in place to identify threats associated with sample integrity and the infrastructure of the technology and communication systems.
• New Standard 3.7 ensures that facilities monitor their critical technology infrastructure and that they function as expected including defined checks.
• New Standard 5.2.1.2.1 ensures that laboratories using publicly accessible databases do so under the agreement of the terms of service that exist at that time. This provides coverage to the user concerning privacy requirements that are required to be followed.
• New Standard 5.2.5.2 ensures that reports created for genetic genealogy cases that have profiles obtained from the publicly available space where identity is not verified are identified as such.

Effective date: January 1, 2026

PRINT EDITION: AABB, 2025, 127 pages, ISBN 978-1-56395-542-6

Product Code: 253293
Member Price: $160
Nonmember Price: $238

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