‘Minister Hugo de Jonge turned down a recent test offer from trade association Fenelab’ | Inland

That is what the national trade association Fenelab says to BNR. “Our proposal was so innovative that the government said it did not fit in with the current thinking,” says chairman Pieter Vos of Fenelab.

Fenelab tells BNR that it has submitted a proposal in which it meets the tight test capacity in the Netherlands and in which there is plenty of room for innovation in the way of testing.

“There is a link between sampling and test location. If you want to be tested now, you have to call the GGD and you will be sent everywhere in the Netherlands to be tested there. The problem of scarcity and complexity is enormous.

We proposed to use couriers to empty all test locations, then take the samples to one location, do the first pre-treatment there and then distribute the samples. The whole thing was so innovative that the government said: ‘that does not fit in our current thinking pattern’ and as a result we did not get the space and the separate contracts were made with the current Fenelab labs. But those samples do go abroad ”, says Vos.

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