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DNA analysis by the NYT cannot confirm presence of tuna in Subway's tuna sandwiches


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A lawsuit against America’s largest sandwich chain has raised questions about America’s most popular canned fish. We tried to answer one: Is Subway selling tuna?

 

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The results, per an email sent to The Times: "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."

 

A representative for the lab told The Times that the results pointed to two possible scenarios. "One, it's so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn't make an identification," the person said. "Or we got some and there's just nothing there that's tuna."

 

Tuna experts also emphasized to The Times that once fish like tuna had been cooked, its protein would become broken down, or denatured, making it difficult to identify.

 

 

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This is so fucking dumb.

 

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To be fair, when Inside Edition sent samples from three Subway locations in Queens out for testing earlier this year, the lab found that the specimens were, indeed, tuna.

 

Even the plaintiffs have softened their original claims. In a new filing from June, their complaints centered not on whether Subway’s tuna was tuna at all, but whether it was “100% sustainably caught skipjack and yellowfin tuna.”

 

Then what the fuck are we talking about?

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