As far as I can tell, this 'guidance and advice' follows very closely inline with ISO 17025 requirements on validation and testing of tools and procedures?
Yep ) .
If you check point 2.3.1 of the "draft", it states
2.3 Reservation
2.3.1 Every effort has been made to provide useful and accurate guidance of the requirements contained in the Codes of Practice and Conduct for Forensic Science Providers and Practitioners in the Criminal Justice System (the Codes). However, if the guidance supplied here
inadvertently implies a lesser requirement than the Codes or
ISO/IEC170252005 require, then the standard rather than the guidance will prevail.
As always, please call me "hairy reasoner" as much as you want, but I cannot but read the "giudance" as EITHER 😯
1) you forensic investigators are so d@mn dumb that you need someone to explain to you how to implement ISO 17025 and we are trying to do this but take NO responsibility whatever, we only managed to produce more than 100 pages filled with truisms, very elementary concepts, vague examples, theoretical and utterly inapplicable in practice[*]procedures (such as "peer review") and the like
OR
2) the guys that wrote ISO 17025 did a terrible work as the "standard" is not understandable without further (this document) guidance
In any case you should apply ISO 17025 to your activities.
As said elsewhere, besides the all-in-all lack of anything of actual practical use, the draft is another confirmation of the (IMHO flawed) idea of making an artisan work an industrial production line
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jaclaz
[*]more specifically in practice any and all "development" or "discoveries" or "new procedures" will become exclusively possible to "large laboratories" or "Big" software firms, if you want to be compliant with ISO 17025 and the guidance document, or however it will take so much time to validate any new thing that by the time it will be validated it will most probably be already obsolete as the device/hardware or software to which it applies won't be anymore in use.