BRUSSELS (AP) — There is no such thing as "pure chocolate," the EU high court ruled yesterday, ending an EU-Italy food fight over chocolate labels.The ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union voided an Italian law that recognizes some delicacies as "pure chocolate."

The court said if a product is made from 100 percent cocoa butter, that fact must be listed on the ingredients table only. It also said the EU's 1999 chocolate labelling rules make no room for a "pure chocolate" reference like the one Italy enacted in a 2003 law.

Once vegetable fats are included in the production of chocolate — a popular practice in some EU nations, notably Britain — then the label must say, "contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter," the court said.

The EU labelling rules took effect in 1999 after a lively debate pitting countries like Britain — where chocolate usually contains a substitute vegetable fats — against purists like Belgium, Italy and others, where traditionalist chocolate makers use only cocoa butter.