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HFSC marks 10 years of blind quality-control testing; discloses internal and outsourced documentation errors

5777232 · September 12, 2025
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Jacqueline Morel, HFSC’s quality director, told the board that the center’s blind quality-control program reached its 10th anniversary and has submitted more than 4,000 blind samples to the laboratory’s technical processes to test procedures and analyst performance.

Jacqueline Morel, HFSC’s quality director, told the board that the center’s blind quality-control program reached its 10th anniversary and has submitted more than 4,000 blind samples to the laboratory’s technical processes to test procedures and analyst performance.

“This year, our blind quality control program turned 10,” Morel said, describing the program’s goal to insert test samples that emulate real evidence and be treated like casework. Over the program’s decade she said the quality division spent more than 5,000 hours creating blind samples and has implemented blinds across six of seven forensic disciplines.

Morel said the blind…

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