Wageningen-based specialist in validating plant health diagnostic tests, validated protocols, and NGS-based pest detection for European laboratories.
CLEARDETECTIONS B.V. is a Dutch private company based in Wageningen — Europe's foremost agricultural research hub — specializing in the development and validation of laboratory diagnostic tests for detecting plant pests and pathogens. Their core work involves designing test performance studies, establishing validated protocols, and producing reference materials that enable official plant health laboratories across Europe to reliably identify harmful organisms. They bring molecular diagnostic expertise, including next-generation sequencing (NGS), to large pan-European consortia working on plant health protection. They also provide proficiency testing services and training to standardize diagnostic quality across national laboratories.
VALITEST (2018–2021) was entirely focused on validating diagnostic tests for plant health, and all of the organization's H2020 keywords — validated protocols, test performance study, proficiency — come from this project.
VALITEST keywords explicitly include 'next generation sequencing' alongside detection, identification, and diagnostic, pointing to NGS as a core methodological competency.
Keywords 'reference material' and 'proficiency' from VALITEST indicate they support inter-laboratory quality assurance programs, a specialized service within plant health diagnostics.
'Training' appears in the VALITEST keyword set, suggesting they also deliver capacity-building activities to diagnostic laboratories adopting new validated methods.
Their third-party role in SOILCARE (2016–2021), a project on profitable and sustainable crop production, suggests peripheral involvement in broader agricultural ecosystem health, though with no keyword evidence of a deep contribution.
CLEARDETECTIONS entered the H2020 programme first via SOILCARE (2016) as a third party with no attributed keywords, indicating a subcontracting or service-provider role at the edges of a large agronomy consortium. By 2018, their participation in VALITEST shows a sharply defined identity — every project keyword maps directly to plant health diagnostics, molecular detection, and laboratory validation. There is no broad thematic evolution here; rather, the data reveals a company that started at the margins of agricultural research and then secured a more substantive, funded role squarely within their diagnostic niche.
CLEARDETECTIONS is moving toward a more central, funded role in standardized plant health diagnostics, and their NGS expertise positions them well for future EU initiatives around phytosanitary surveillance and early pest detection.
CLEARDETECTIONS has never coordinated an H2020 project — they consistently join as a participant or third party, positioning themselves as a specialist service provider within larger consortia. Their 46 unique consortium partners across 19 countries from just two projects reflects involvement in large, pan-European networks typical of EUPHRESCO or EPPO-linked plant health programs. This profile suggests they are reliable, well-networked contributors who bring narrow but highly credible technical depth to consortia that need validated diagnostic capability.
Despite only two H2020 projects, CLEARDETECTIONS has worked with 46 distinct consortium partners across 19 countries — a footprint that reflects participation in large, multi-partner European plant health networks rather than bilateral or regional collaborations. Their Wageningen base places them within immediate reach of WUR, NPPO-NL, and a dense cluster of plant science organizations.
CLEARDETECTIONS occupies a specific and defensible niche: the technical validation of diagnostic tests for plant health, rather than diagnostics as a clinical or commercial service. This type of expertise — writing test performance studies, producing reference materials, running proficiency schemes — is essential infrastructure for official plant health laboratories but is rarely the visible face of large consortia. Their Wageningen location and NGS capability make them a credible and well-connected specialist for any EU project that needs its diagnostic outputs to meet EPPO or ISPM standards.
