ASCLD/LAB has adopted four objectives which define the purposes and nature of the program. They are:

1. To improve the quality of laboratory services provided to the criminal justice system.

2. To develop and maintain criteria which may be used by a laboratory to assess its level of performance and to strengthen its operation.

3. To provide an independent, impartial, and objective system by which laboratories can benefit from a total operational review.

4. To offer to the general public and to users of laboratory services a means of identifying those laboratories which have demonstrated that they meet established standards.