ABSTRACT
ASTM International is a standards organization that facilitates the development and maintenance of standard practices, methods, and related documents designed to ensure quality work products. ASTM currently has over 130 committees, which maintain over 10,000 standards.1 One of these committees, the E30 Committee on Forensic Science, is responsible for the development and maintenance of standards associated with forensic analyses and applications. Currently, the forensic discipline that is most comprehensively represented in the ASTM standards is fire debris analysis. These standards are developed and maintained by the Criminalistics Subcommittee E30.01.
