As a result of the investigation that 'tuna DNA' could not be detected from the tuna of the subway, it was pointed out that it is meaningless to disguise the cheap tuna from the beginning.
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In a follow-up test conducted by the New York Times in connection with Subway's complaint in February 2021 that 'subway tuna is not actually made from tuna,' 'from subway tuna, The DNA of tuna, which is the raw material for tuna, could not be detected. '
The Big Tuna Sandwich Mystery --The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/style/subway-tuna-sandwich-lawsuit.html
'The content of the complaint is unfounded. We deliver 100% tuna tuna to the store in a cooked state,' Subway told The New York Times, who interviewed the New York Times about the truth of the tuna in the company's sandwich. However, we dare to make a fresh sandwich there and serve it to our customers. Subway tuna is one of our most popular products, and such unfounded accusations are subway. It's a reckless and inappropriate attack on the brand and credit of the company, 'he said, denying the charges head-on.
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So, New York Times reporter Julia Carmel asked me to take the tuna from the sandwich I actually bought on the Subway, freeze it and send it to a food inspection company to inspect if it really was tuna meat. I requested. In addition, since the food inspection company said, 'I do not want to lose the opportunity to trade with the largest sandwich chain in the United States,' it is not clear which inspection company specifically conducted the analysis.
Then, a month later, the testing company told Carmel, 'The sample did not contain the DNA of amplifyable tuna that could be used for PCR testing, and we did not obtain any DNA by-products. We cannot identify which of the five types of tuna the tuna was being tested for. '
According to the institute, there are two possible reasons why tuna DNA could not be detected in the subway tuna. One is 'cooking was too advanced and DNA could not be extracted', and the other was 'it was not tuna in the first place'.
However, Carmel emphasizes that the results of this test cannot immediately say that 'subway tuna is not tuna.' This is because, as the testing company points out, heating tuna meat denatures the DNA, so it may not be possible to tell what kind of meat it is by DNA testing.
Meanwhile, when the American documentary program Inside Edition took tuna samples from three Subway stores in New York and tested them for DNA, the testing company confirmed that they were 'certainly tuna meat.' I am.
You can see the result of verification by Inside Edition from the following movie.
Is Subway's Tuna Sandwich Actually Made of Tuna? --YouTube
Others have pointed out that there is little point in turning tuna into fake meat from a cost perspective. An anonymous former classmate who had worked on Subway for over a year told The New York Times, 'I was dealing with real tuna in the store. It was written on the package as a raw material. In the first place, tuna is a relatively cheap meat, so there is no point in changing to another meat to make it cheaper. ' Dave Rudy of Catalina Offshore Products, an American fishery company, also said, 'I don't think the sandwich shop is deliberately disguised. If there was any fraud in this case, it happened at a canning factory that makes tuna cans. Isn't it? '
The plaintiff who filed a lawsuit that 'Subway's tuna is not tuna' also softened the initial claim. In a new court document submitted in June, plaintiffs said they were shifting the issue to 'whether the subway tuna was caught in a 100% sustainable manner' rather than whether it was genuine.
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