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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009Chain of Custody - another use.
The phrase "Chain of Custody" is used in reference to timber from "certified forests". This use appears to be closely analogous to the forensic use of the phrase: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/op/COC_popup.jsp What is Chain of Custody? * The chain-of-custody is the path which products take from the forest to the consumer, including all manufacturing, transformation and distribution links. * Chain-of-custody certification verifies that products from certified forests are not mixed with products from uncertified forests at any point in the supply chain. * Chain-of-custody certification assures your buyers and customers that the certified goods they buy are genuinely the products of a well-managed forest. * A secure chain-of-custody requires that certified products are identified, segregated and accompanied by appropriate documentation at all stages. When is Chain of Custody required? .... What is needed for Chain of Custody certification? .... (Source: The Timber Trade Federation) http://www.ttf.co.uk/ Visit the FSC's website for more information about Chain of Custody. http://www.fsc-uk.org/  SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >The phrase "Chain of Custody" is used in reference to timber from >"certified forests". This use appears to be closely analogous to the [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > What is needed for Chain of Custody certification? > .... This sort of chain-0f-custody applies in other fields as well. I spent quite a few years as a quality assurance auditor in the nuclear power industry and materials used there in safety-related systems have to have pedigrees "back to the mine", as we sometimes put it, and the supplier must supply a certificate attesting to what the material actually is, which includes the chem analysis for metals (a CMTR, or certified materials test report). In my line of work we had to find evidence that proper care was being taken with the materials and that a supplier had programs in place that would properly track materials at each stage of handling. When Kaiser Steel still operated in Fontana, Calif, I watched them pour molten steel into ingots and made them show me how they tracked each ingot through the plant, through the rolling mill and on to the shipping dock and then on to the truck. Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * >This sort of chain-0f-custody applies in other fields as well. I >spent quite a few years as a quality assurance auditor in the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >the rolling mill and on to the shipping dock and then on to the >truck. I'm not certain, but it might also be used by the post office in relation to registered post. The concept is certainly used, even if the term isn't. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk >This sort of chain-0f-custody applies in other fields as well. In the food supply, the terminology for the same concept concentrates on the outcome rather than the process: it's called "identity preservation". There, the issue is making sure that a food product with certain political (organic, non-transgenic, etc.) and nutritional (free of some allergen, containing a certain amino acid mix, etc.) properties makes it through the supply chain without adulteration. A more involved description than even I care to read can be found at <http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8077.pdf>. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness >This sort of chain-0f-custody applies in other fields as well. I >spent quite a few years as a quality assurance auditor in the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >the rolling mill and on to the shipping dock and then on to the >truck. That's not a custody chain, it is a record of process for a particular billet, rod, sheet, so on. As long as that material can be unambiguously linked to the record, it doesn't matter who has "custody" of the material. Custody could be an issue if the storage environment is important. >>This sort of chain-0f-custody applies in other fields as well. I >>spent quite a few years as a quality assurance auditor in the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >material. Custody could be an issue if the storage environment is >important. And for some equipment and materials, it is. Nevertheless, the documents are no good unless it can be shown that the material never left the documented chain. The chain of custody is as important as the paperwork. Each holder of the mterial or evidence basically attests that this is the stuff given to him/her by the previous holder and is the stuff passed on to the next holder. Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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