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Note from the publisher: This item has been updated on July 7 to include a metro comment.

AfterA Category Spare File and several laboratory tests, questions aboutThe authenticity of the tuna of the metro Continue turning throughout the media and food sector. Do Tona Metro sandwiches really contain tuna? EastMetro potentially misleading customers by serving them as mystery fish instead of yellow and skijack tuna varietiesAs described on his website?

A trial filed in January 2021 against the sandwich chain by California customers alleges deception. In a chain tuna laboratory analysis controlled by the complainants, no tuna tuna DNA is apparently found. The complainants' lawyer saidThe Washington Post That "the ingredients were not tuna and not the fish", but refused to clarify what the ingredients had been present in the portion of the sandwich chain.

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On the other hand, a previous laboratory test commanded byInside the editionIn February, examined three subway tuna samples obtained from queens sites, N.Y. Specimens were identified as tuna.

More recently,The New York Times Ordered a similar DNA test on the tuna sampled with metro locations in Los Angeles. The conclusion? Although no tuna DNA was found in the laboratory test, metro deception was only one possible scenario. Another explanation, according to the report released last week, maybe the metro tuna is simply too treated to increase any DNA in laboratory tests.

For its part,The largest rapid catering chain of America stands by the integrity ofhis ingredients. Last weekDECLARATION OF FOX TV STATIONS, Subway said:

"A recent New York Times report indicates that the DNA test is an unreliable methodology for identifying the treated tuna. This report supports and reflects the position that the metro has taken in relation with a trial without merit tabled in California and With regard to DNA tests to identify the cooked proteins. The DNA test is simply not a reliable way to identify denatured proteins, such as metro tuna, cooked before being tested. "

The California trial hasrecently been modified To focus less on the question of whether the tuna of the chain is Thona, but that it is "100% lisjack captured in a sustainable way and yellow tuna". The metro responded to the new June deposit with a statement toEat this, not that!, in which they claim that the applicants abandoned their initial claim after having been presented with information from the chain, but filed a new complaint just also deserved without merit who "do not remedy any of the fundamental defects in the case of applicants" .

With all the confusion around what fish species are actually represented in metro tuna, where the chain gets its tuna becomes the central issue.

Is Jana Marques the importer of metro tuna?

According toThe New York TimesThe metro refused to appoint its tuna supplier. However, a credible connection can be made between metro brands and Jana, a company founded in 1970 by Steve Forman. According toJANA BRANDS website, Forman carved his career in the pioneer of the crab tail industry of the King of Alaska. He has found a way to house the crab tail-a product usually thrown when fresh crab is treated - and ended up transforming it into a millions of dollars. Its company has also introduced the 100% tuna of the performance pocket on the market, which is now a standard in the food service industry and supermarket shelves.

While the metro refused to commentEat this, not that!About its connection to Jana Brands, there is a record. Forman was an early investor in the metro expansion in China, according to a 2005 articleFortune small business. It would have invested about $ 1 million for a 75% stake in the country's franchise activities in the mid-1990s.

JANA BRAND websiteDeclares that the independent Subway purchase cooperative appointed Forman and its company their "Millennium Seller" in the late 1990s, thanks to "JANA innovative contributions had made the metro from 1974 to the new millennium".

And severalPublic import records Show that Jana Marques is always at least one of the importers of the metro tuna, having made imports of "pocket-flakes light from light salmon" under the "Subway" label, as recently as on June 25. The shipment came from China. However, the species of tuna has not been identified.

A request for comments for this article ofEat this, not that! I did not returned by the brands Steve Forman and Jana.

Metro tuna is probably a cheap by-product, says expert

Jana Brand American Import RecordsDating back to 2019 under the "Subway" label show that the company imported tuna flakes for the chain. The species of tuna for the product is identified as the legislation - exactly like claims of the sandwich chain.

But the quality of the product of the chain has probably less to do with tuna species and more to do with parts of the fish used.

"It's up to the treatment and manufacturing and how these products are managed," says Sean Wittenberg, CofounderSafe captureA seafood company disturbing industry with high standards of mercury testing on tuna.

Wittenberg believes that the metro uses 100% by-product of tuna twice called the "Flocon", AKA of cheap fillings that stand out from the fish loin. In fact, the different categories of commercially canned tuna are designated on the basis of the quantity of this by-product compared to the actual pieces of the tuna they contain.

Wittenberg, whose company uses tuna at once cooked to avoid disintegrating too much protein, indicates that most commercial tuna are cooked twice during production. This means that tuna captured and frozen at sea is thawed in pre-cookers, eliminating fish from its natural oils and dehydrate. After it is cooled and cleaned, the cooked tuna moves in the mounting chain, where flakes of the meat that fall on the lanyard are captured in giant bathtubs for sale in tuna flakes. The tuna then undergoes the tin and a second cooking process, which makes it stable shelf.

"What I think the metro is doing is that they use 100% flakes of the lines of a very large factory, which is the cheapest by-product to reduce their costs" , said Wittenberg. "And they probably do it various species of seafood - with all that is on the line - but I bet that the main species you see there are skijack, Tongol and Bonito."

This could explain why laboratory tests have not been able to find tuna DNA in the metro product.

Bonito, while staying in the Tuna-mackerel family, is not technically Thona. It is also one of the species mentioned on the metro website. In addition, Whittenberg says that the word "light" on the import records means that there is a clemency around what the species can be found in the product.

"To be just, I think Bonito and Tongol are big fish. The skijack is an excellent fish - it's more about how you treat this fish," he says. "If you take only the most flaccid parts of the line of the line cooked twice and add vegetable oil and pyrophosphates and overproduction, the quality of the fish does not matter."

The metro responded to our requests for comment on this story with the following statement:

"FDA-regulated metro importers, such as Jana brands, use only 100% 100% round tuna, twice cleaned, skipjack tuna kidneys. The meat and the recovered flake are strictly prohibited by our standards. The tuna that subway guests appreciate is not treated differently from the tuna of the canned or the pouch found in the average supermarket. And, according to scientific experts, the DNA test results from the laboratory without Name obtained by the New York Times does not mean that there is no tuna in their samples, only that it can not be detected considering the test method. This leads to a mass misunderstanding by broader media and readers of their news. These lies have harmful impacts on the metro brand, and more importantly, our franchise network - small businesses owners who own 100% of metro restaurants in the United States, Consult the subwaytun AFACT.COM for the truth about the tuna of the metro. "

For more information on the metro, check:

• The largest rapid catering chain of America is on a downward spiral, reports say
• Metro operators reproach the outrageous founder behavior of the fall of the chain chain
• America's largest rapid catering chain takes a hard position against franchisees

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