SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Tuna at Subway is actually a mystery meat, a new class action lawsuit against the company alleges.
Eaters hoping for actual tuna in their subs or wraps are instead fed “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet have been blended together by (Subway) to imitate the appearance of tuna,” the Jan. 21 lawsuit says.
Mark Lanier and colleagues at The Lanier Law Firm of Texas and Shalini Dogra of Dogra Law Group in Santa Monica are pursuing the case, alleging fraud, unjust enrichment and violations of California law. Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin are the plaintiffs.
“Defendants have engaged in economic adulteration by selling a food product that partially or wholly lacked the valuable constituents of tuna, and that had been substituted in part or whole,” the lawsuit says.
“Defendants have further committed unlawful adulteration by concealing the inferiority of the Products.”
The lawsuit doesn’t specify what the “tuna” is actually made from.