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EU grants Neapolitan pizza Traditional Specialty Guaranteed label

December 8, 2009

‘Let's hope it's really coming this time,' Antonio Pace, head of a group lobbying for the designation, said. ‘They've been telling us it's in the pipeline for so long, it'll be a relief to finally get it. It'll be a milestone and, above all, a way to stop stuff that isn't really pizza being touted as such.'

 

‘The produce that goes into it, the ways of making and baking it, the whole process of assembling the finished package must be rigorously verified,' he said. ‘We'll have to be very careful about that.'