Two Bay Area residents are hitting Subway with a third lawsuit regarding the contents of the fast food restaurant's "100% tuna" product.
Plaintiffs Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin of Alameda filed the suit in federal court in San Francisco on Monday, claiming that lab testing shows the tuna contains animal products such as chicken, pork and cattle, KTVU reported.
A study of 20 Subway tuna samples found that 19 samples had "no detectable tuna DNA sequences" while all 20 contained detectable chicken DNA, 11 contained pork DNA and 7 contained cattle DNA, the lawsuit alleged.
Dhanowa and Amin first filed a complaint against the franchise in January claiming that there was no tuna in the tuna salad, sandwiches and wraps, but have since rescinded the accusations. An amended complaint claimed that the skipjack and yellowfin tuna said to be used in Subway products were not 100% sustainably caught, but a judge dismissed the suit.
In a statement provided to Reuters, Subway said the plaintiffs in this case have "filed three meritless complaints, changing their story each time," and that its "high-quality, wild-caught, 100% tuna" was regulated strictly in the U.S. and around the world.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages against Subway for fraud and violations of California consumer protection laws, the station said.
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