December 12, 2015 7:37 AM

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Supreme Court has sought a response from Maggi noodles manufacturer Nestle India Limited and Maharashtra government on a plea filed by food regulator FSSAI against Bombay High Court's verdict lifting ban and asking the company to go for fresh tests. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant fixed the plea of FSSAI for hearing on 13th of next month when it will consider its plea for stay of the High Court verdict.FSSAI in its plea said that Nestle India Limited was permitted to choose the samples of its products to be given for testing, thereby vitiating the very purpose of testing any product under the Food Safety and Standards Act.The Bombay High Court had on 13th of August, lifted the ban slapped by food regulators on Nestle India's nine variants of Maggi while asking the company to go in for fresh tests.

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