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Accreditation Scope
Center Activities
This accreditation covers:
- Field measurements/monitoring
- Field sampling
- Laboratory measurements
NEIC accreditation requirements were customized to cover the Civil, Criminal, and Special program work conducted by NEIC.
The requirements encompass forensic areas including:
- Ethics
- Evidence management
- Facility security
- Witness testimony, and
- Written court statements/reports
The requirements address infrastructure items such as:
- Document control/records management
- Procurement
- Facility environment
- Safety
- Equipment inventory, maintenance, and calibration
- Training, competency demonstration, and proficiency evaluation
The accreditation includes both field and laboratory activities, because both impact the control of evidence and the quality of results, and therefore the defensibility of the measurement information.