Description: Testimony, documents, records, objects, etc., which may be presented as evidence to support a decision.

Terminal Competency:

Characterize the connection between laboratory activities and legal evidence.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Articulate the relevance of laboratory activities on evidentiary integrity.

2. Explain the laboratory analyst’s role in maintaining evidentiary integrity.

3. Employ metrological measurement system (SI).

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Description: Ability to trace test results (through all laboratory and sampling processes) to a sampled decision unit.

Terminal Competency:

Reconstruct the pathway from primary sampling to test results including disposition based on records.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Describe activities to ensure traceability of the sample through its lifecycle.

2. Perform procedures (SOPs) to support traceability of test results to the decision unit.

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Description: The characteristic or concentration of the analyte is maintained from collection of the primary sample through selection of the test portion, testing and disposal.

Terminal Competency:

Characterize processes for maintaining analyte integrity.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Describe conditions critical for the integrity of a target analyte.

2. Evaluate procedures (SOPs) to ensure analyte integrity.

3. Evaluate risk of contamination.

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Description: The test portion provides confidence that the systematic error is controlled throughout all sampling processes (sample correctness is maintained) and that the random error meets the requirements of the sample quality criteria.

Terminal Competency:

Confirm test results are representative of the decision unit.

Enabling Competencies:

1. Evaluate procedures (SOPs) to ensure test portion is representative of the decision unit.

2. Describe how sampling errors impact evidentiary integrity.

3. Relate the importance of laboratory sampling to evidentiary integrity.

To see a set of behavioral anchors, which provide further detail about the enabling competencies and can be used for assessment against the enabling competencies, contact IFPTI.