On Thursday, July 3, 2014 11:02:50 AM UTC+10, Pico Rico wrote:
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> food safety inspectors would surely prefer a solid metal peel to a
> perforated peel.

Yes, surely. But if perforated metal meets the rules, perforated metal will be acceptable. Don't know of any place where perforated metal is a no-no, but it's possible, since "smooth, impervious, free of cracks and crevices, nonporous, nonabsorbent, nonreactive, corrosion resistant, nontoxic, and cleanable" or similar is common for food contact surfaces, and somebody could decide that holes make it fail a few of those.

Some places, wooden handles on pizza peels aren't acceptable, let alone wooden pizza peels.