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Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court

Significance of Quality Assurance

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Quality assurance is simply what its name says: a tool to assure the quality of testing.

The key points to follow:

  • Development and adoption of best practice standards and their rigorous implementation are preferred.
  • However, best practices are not the only way to get the right answer nor does using them mean that there will never be an error (either an incorrect positive result or a negative one that should have been positive).

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