The New York times investigated after two people in CA filed a lawsuit against Subway's claiming they were intentionally misleading customers with "everything but tuna" in their tuna sandwich.
Per the NY Times, they collected 60 Tuna sandwiches from 3 different Subway's across LA, then sent them to a lab which specializes in fish to test it. The investigator packed the samples in Ziploc with and shipped it to the lab in a Styrofoam shipping cooler that with a few ice packs. The lab tested the samples and emailed the results stating:
“No amplifiable tuna DNA was present in the sample and so we obtained no amplification products from the DNA,” the email read. “Therefore, we cannot identify the species.”
The spokesman from the lab offered a bit of analysis. “There’s two conclusions,” he said. “One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification. Or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.”
The spokesman from the lab offered a bit of analysis. “There’s two conclusions,” he said. “One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification. Or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.” (Subway declined to comment on the lab results.)
It's obvious Subway's has some explaining to do as their previous comments on this pending lawsuit denied all allegations.
They told the NY Times they denied the allegations. “There simply is no truth to the allegations in the complaint that was filed in California,” a spokeswoman wrote in an email to The New York Times. “Subway delivers 100 percent cooked tuna to its restaurants, which is mixed with mayonnaise and used in freshly made sandwiches, wraps and salads that are served to and enjoyed by our guests.
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