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lonestar09

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Subway’s tuna sandwiches found to contain no tuna fish DNA, lab tests find following lawsuit

New York Times lab tests found no real tuna in Subway sandwiches following lawsuit claims.
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Subway’s tuna sandwiches found to contain no tuna fish DNA, lab tests find following lawsuit

New York Times report had 60 inches of Subway tuna tested at lab and found 'no amplifiable tuna DNA was present'

Tracee Carrasco on Subway

Subway is on the hook for its tuna once again after a lab report found there’s no actual tuna DNA in its sandwiches and wraps.

The New York Times had 60 inches of Subway tuna sandwiches from three different restaurants in Los Angeles lab tested after the chain was accused in a lawsuit reported earlier this year, alleging the fish is made from "a mixture of various concoctions," first reported by the Washington Post.

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New York Times lab tests found no real tuna in Subway sandwiches following lawsuit claims. (iStock)

The tuna was frozen and sent out to the lab, which determined "no amplifiable tuna DNA was present in the sample and so we obtained no amplification products from the DNA. Therefore, we cannot identify the species," according to the Times.

The lab conducted a PCR test to see if Subway’s tuna featured one of five varying tuna species, the New York Times reported, explaining there are 15 species of fish that can be labeled tuna, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Seafood List.

The lab determined two potential reasons why no tuna was detected in the sample, saying, "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 newspaper noted.


Experts told the Times that when tuna is cooked, its protein breaks down, making it hard to identify, so the lab results may not be accurate, according to the Times.
Subway did not immediately return a FOX Business request for comment.

The food fraud investigation comes on the heels of a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California suing the sandwich chain for fraud, with the plaintiffs alleging they were lied to and "tricked into buying food items that wholly lacked the ingredients they reasonably thought they were purchasing."

Subway responded to the lawsuit in January, saying there is "no truth to the allegations in the complaint" and affirming the chain "delivers 100% cooked tuna to its restaurants," Fox News previously reported.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Blacknarwhal said:
I make it a rule to never buy food that I can readily make myself. Tuna sandwiches are staggeringly easy. Open tuna, empty into bowl, add Ranch dressing, mix, apply to bread.
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This is our rule when eating out, unless we’re far away from home and have run out of food we brought with us, then we either look for a mom and pop place to eat, a grocery store or both.
 
Nowski

Nowski

Let's Go Brandon!
Seems like I remember a few years back, it was found out
that their bread, contained some kind of an ingredient,
that was similar to rubber, used to make floor mats.

Peoples eating floor mat bread.

Now finding out that, there doesn't appear to be any
tuna fish in their sandwiches, does not surprise me.

There was a Subway, that was next to where I worked at
in North Raleigh, and I usually would go there for lunch
with some of my co-workers. I remember how weird the
sandwiches were even back then. This was at least
15 years ago, and I haven't been in one since then.

Please be safe everyone.

Regards to all.

Nowski
 
Bridey Rose

Bridey Rose

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Now I know why I couldn't stand to order them -- even on days of total abstinence from meat! :p I'm an solid white albacore only girl!
 
greysage

greysage

On The Level
We'll probably learn that Subway has a product called 'Subwaytuna' that is some sort of cheap fish mash but not real tuna fish.
 
Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
The floormat ingredient (or something like it) is also used in almost all American Pizza chains to make the cheese melt "better," but it is illegal to use it in the EU. So the pizza here isn't quite as smooth as it is in the USA (in chains anyway) but I'm OK with that.

Subway is also somewhat better here because the food standards prohibit that junk in bread, though I am a bit concerned now about their meat products. For us, over here, it has been one of the few places Nightwolf can eat and not get sick when we are away from home.

But the food standards probably help keep them a bit more honest (I hope). On the other hand, ordering a sandwich with "Barbeque" sauce on it that turned out to be a weird mixture of curry paste and chili was pretty disgusting.

One friend said, "I don't like eating at Subway because it is an American food and I don't care for it."

I answered: "No, Subway in Ireland and the UK are not American foods, they are what the Irish or Brits THINK American food is."

Which is why normally I get an Italian sandwich there...
 
PghPanther

PghPanther

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Never ate at a subway...............always thought paying someone to make a sandwich in front of you that you could easily do with some items from the grocery store didn't make sense................

By the time they came into existence I had pretty much stopped eating food like that anyway............
 
naegling62

naegling62

Veteran Member
A few things here. It's so processed it no long can be identified as Tuna? Then what's that smell? They used a PCR test? If it can't tell tuna is tuna then maybe we ought not use that to determine a global pandemic.

Lastly, I've browsed through some commercial fisherman's forums looking for info on SkipJack Herring. They discussed the fact that SkipJack Tuna is actually just about anything. They even said products labeled as SkipJack Tuna have SkipJack Herring in them. I have no idea if this has any truth to it.
 
R

raven

TB Fanatic
i never eat "tuna" salad that has been sitting out half a day.
Between the fish and the mayo and the unwashed bathroom hands and the ever present flies
there is too much of a chance for it to go bad and kill you.

Like the prepackaged chicken or tuna salad sandwiches they sell in Quick Trip
I cannot imagine how in the world that stuff cannot be bad.

But if you are good with it,
great
more for you
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Bridey Rose said:
Now I know why I couldn't stand to order them -- even on days of total abstinence from meat! :p I'm a solid white albacore only girl!
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Yup. Albacore or Yellow Fin from a reputable source. $2.79 a water-pack can. Worth it.

We had an Italian sub from Subway ONCE coming back from Pittsburgh one time. Didn't get sick, but I just never went there.
 
Bones

Bones

Living On A Prayer
Looks like tuna. Smells like tuna. Tastes like tuna

Old Bones will eat it .

Whatever it is, it's tasty and a solid gold bet that I've eaten much, much worse things in my life.
 
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