June 18, 2021 CFSI Staff

Subway “fake tuna” lawsuit shifts focus to sustainability

A class-action lawsuit that questioned whether the tuna served at U.S. sandwich chain Subway is actually tuna is now focusing on the veracity of the restaurant chain’s sustainability claims.

In January 2021, plaintiffs Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin said in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the “tuna in Subway’s sandwiches and wraps is a “mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet have been blended together by [Subway] to imitate the appearance of tuna.”

The plaintiffs did not say which ingredients Subway uses in place of tuna…

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