As an alternative, Template::Plugin::Datafile (comes as part of TT) may be of interest (i recently found it and really liked it for some somple stuff):

[% USE items = datafile('/tmp/dmeo_labels.csv', delim = ',') %]
[% FOREACH item = items %]
  [% item.id %]  has [% item.name %]
[% END %]
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