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Foreign student restriction plans need a rethink, minister told

Dutch universities welcomed nearly the same number of students this year as the previous two, but a slight dip in international enrollment in bachelor's program suggests recent changes are taking effect. Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) reported 340,088 students enrolled, nearly matching previous years. About 220 fewer international students started bachelor's programs compared to last year, a levelling off which kept the total above 18,500, but there was a slight increase in foreign master's students with nearly 17,000 enrolling in a new program

Food quality technology plays a vital role both in ensuring that food is safe to eat, therefore reducing food waste, and providing insights around its health and composition. Three European start-ups tell FoodNavigator how technology can help them understand food.

If all goes to plan, Dutch start-up Meatable will launch its cultivated meat in the first half of this year. Meatable is one of Europe’s leaders of cultivating animal cells to generate meat, using fermenters similar to those used in brewing beer, but European consumers won’t find it on the shelves of their local supermarket any time soon.

Some locally owned businesses are taken over, often by big corporations