Subway Sandwich Samples Contain No Tuna DNA, Reports Lab

An independent lab reportedly says that it could not find any identifiable tuna DNA in multiple samples provided by a New York Times reporter.  

Subway has been accused of selling tuna sandwiches to consumers “that wholly lacked the ingredient they reasonably thought they were purchasing” in a class action lawsuit filed in California earlier this year.  

A reporter from The New York Times decided to get to the bottom of the issue and says that she sent frozen meat from “more than 60 inches worth of Subway tuna sandwiches” to a commercial food testing lab several weeks ago. 

She reports that the lab failed to identify any tuna DNA in the Subway sandwich samples.  

“There’s two conclusions,” a lab spokesperson told the Times reporter. “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.” 

Indeed, the class action lawsuit filed in California similarly claims that independent testing found that Subway’s tuna is a mixture of various concoctions that look similar to tuna, but in fact, is not tuna.  

Subway continues to deny claims that its tuna sandwiches are anything but real.  

“There simply is no truth to the allegations in the complaint that was filed in California,” a spokesperson reportedly stated 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.” 

The Subway tuna class action lawsuit is currently pending in federal court in Northern California.  

Do you eat Subway tuna sandwiches or wraps? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below!  

The plaintiffs are represented by Shalini Dogra of Dogra Law Group PC.  

The Subway’s Tuna Sandwich Class Action Lawsuit is Nilima Amin, et al., v. Subway Restaurants Inc., et al., Case No. 4:21-cv-00498-DMR, in the United States District Court Northern District of California. 

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