NY Times test finds no identifiable tuna DNA in Subway's tuna sandwich

The Hill ^ | June 22, 2021 | Jordan Williams

[Trump20162020]

A New York Times analysis found no identifiable tuna DNA in Subway’s tuna sandwich, the newspaper reported over the weekend, citing tests conducted by a commercial lab.

The Times bought 60 inches of Subway tuna sandwiches from three different Subway locations in Los Angeles.

A reporter for the newspaper then removed and froze the tuna and sent it to an unidentified commercial food testing lab. The newspaper said it paid roughly $500 for the lab to conduct a PCR test to see if the substance had one of five different tuna species.

After a month, the lab said it found “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,” the lab said.

Elaborating on the results, a spokesperson for the lab told the Times that there were two different conclusions.

“One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification,” the spokesperson said. “Or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.”

Subway declined to comment to the Times on the lab results.

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It’s PEOPLE!

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I really like Firehouse. Especially their hot sauce collection! :-)

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I don’t doubt it.

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yep.

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Taco Bell meat?

Oh My.

[CodeJockey]

From the Subway site:

You’ll love every bite of our classic tuna sandwich. 100% wild caught tuna blended with creamy mayo then topped with your choice of crisp, fresh veggies. 100% delicious.

Either the NYT or Subway is ripe for a lawsuit.

[kaktuskid]

Low quality tuna AKA cat food

[Organic Panic]

They already sent NYT clippings for testing. It has overwhelming amounts of male bovine DNA.

[Gay State Conservative]

And the same survey found no fraudulent votes in the shipment of 100,000 votes that were received by the Atlanta counting desk on Friday 11/5.

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Lettuce sandwiches contain almost no meat.

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Yes but....... it’s Philadelphia and nothing to be proud of.