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- Title
PROFICIENCY TESTS ORGANIZED BY THE ENFSI AUTOMOTIVE PAINT WORKING GROUP FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MATERIAL EVIDENCE CAPITALIZATION.
- Authors
STOIAN, Maria Georgeta; STĂNEL, Iulian; IANCULESCU, Gabriela
- Abstract
The Romanian Forensic Science Institute is affiliated, from May 2005, to the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI). As an ENFSI member, the Romanian Forensic Science Institute has the opportunity for Romanian forensic personnel to participate in working groups on main forensic sciences (ballistics, tool marks, handwriting, questioned documents, chemistry, DNA etc.) where positive experience is shared and common work procedures are adopted. In 2006, the Romanian Forensic Science Institute implemented a Quality Management System according to ISO 17025/2005 and until now the Romanian Accreditation Organization RENAR, accredited 143 general procedures and work instructions, as well as 56 standard operating procedures in the fields of classical forensic expertise, judicial identification, physical - chemical analysis in forensic chemistry field and bioforensic expertise. An effective means for monitoring the performance from both to their performance and to the same level laboratory performance is participation in proficiency testing schemes (external quality control). Proficiency testing schemes is achieved by distributing to participating laboratories test materials: identical samples or identical sub-samples from a uniform mixture, whose content is known only by the organizing body. Regular participation in proficiency testing provides independent verification of analytical competence of the laboratory and demonstrate a commitment to maintain and improve performance. Since 2008, Physical-Chemical Examination Service, through representatives in ENFSI working groups, participated in proficiency tests of working groups to analysis of paint and glass (automotive paint subcommittee), to analysis of fire debris and explosion remaining samples (accelerants subcommittee) and to analysis of textile fibers; the results are always appreciated by the organizers as correct in the limit of the examination and analysis possibilities in the forensic chemistry laboratories of the Romanian Forensic Science Institute. In this paper we present the analysis of automotive paint samples that were received in the proficiency tests Collaborative Paint Exercise No.14/2008, Collaborative Paint Exercise No.15/2009 and Collaborative Paint Exercise No.16/2010, and with our results we stood among European forensic institutes with good results.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union countries; FORENSIC chemistry research; AUTOMOTIVE painting &; paint shops; CRIME laboratories; QUALITY standards
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Forensic Science, 2011, Vol 78, Issue 6, p875
- ISSN
2069-2617
- Publication type
Article