Subway defends the duck after CBC Marketplace report

Subway stands behind a chicken.

The sandwich sequence is encountering a commentary of a CBC Marketplace investigation into quick food chicken. While many of a samples were found to enclose tighten to 100 per cent chicken DNA, Subway sandwiches contained almost reduction than a other chains. Tests showed an normal of 53.6 per cent duck DNA for a oven-roasted chicken and 42.8 per cent for a duck strips.

The story has garnered worldwide attention, and lifted questions about how most duck should be in a duck sandwich.

• Watch a Marketplace review on fast-food chicken
• DNA exam shows Subway sandwiches could enclose usually 50% chicken

Subway says a news was “absolutely fake and misleading,” and demanded it be retracted. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that a sequence says a sandwiches enclose 100 per cent white beef with seasonings, nonetheless a part list it supposing to CBC News lists soy protein as a member of a company’s chicken.

Subway’s oven-roasted duck sandwich patty contains about 50 per cent duck DNA, according to lab tests. (CBC)

Marketplace stands by a news and is releasing a Subway exam formula as good as additional fact about a methodology and investigation.

Here’s what a DNA contrast means

The contrast of duck from McDonalds, Wendy’s, AW, Subway and Tim Hortons was conducted during a DNA lab during Trent University in Peterborough, Ont.

Marketplace initially tested 3 samples from Subway: dual from a oven-roasted duck and one from a duck strips. Each square of duck was damaged down into 3 smaller samples, that were away tested. The lab also retested these samples a second time.

Since a formula were so considerably opposite than a DNA combination of a other sandwiches, a lab tested 10 new samples, 5 of a oven-roasted duck and 5 of a duck strips. The samples were performed from mixed locations opposite Southern Ontario.

The steady tests all reinforced a lab’s initial assessment. The formula reported by CBC were a total normal of a formula of all 3 tests.

The lab also tested a samples from all bondage for plant DNA, and found that about half a DNA in a duck samples from Subway were of plant origin, a infancy of that was soy.

Only a Subway samples had poignant levels of plant DNA.

Marketplace DNA exam results

A note about a exam results: This was a information about a DNA lab contrast that was supposing to Subway on Feb. 16, 2017. The initial collection of Subway samples was retested, and those numbers are reflected in a final percentages.

While many media outlets took a formula to meant that a duck is usually half chicken, a existence of DNA contrast is somewhat some-more nuanced.

DNA tests don’t exhibit an accurate commission of a volume of duck in a whole piece, though DNA experts have told Marketplace that a contrast is a good indicator of a suit of animal and plant DNA in a product.

Trent University’s Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory stands by a exam results.

Robert Hanner, a biologist and associate executive for a Canadian Barcode of Life Network during a University of Guelph, Ont., pronounced DNA formula “cannot be taken as accurate mass ratios in a product,” though he adds they are a good indicator of how most soy is in Subway’s chicken.

Benjamin Bohrer, a food scientist during a University of Guelph and beef estimate expert, in a blog post published Monday, called for larger clarity from quick food companies so a open knows what they’re eating.

“DNA tests do not distortion (especially when conducted mixed times), and anyone with entrance to a DNA laboratory could perform these tests,” he wrote.

“Either make your duck truly a marinated, seasoned duck OR welcome your products for what they are and tell your business about your agenda. Consumers wish to know a story of their food, so be transparent.”

Here’s what’s in Subway chicken

Subway declined to pronounce with Marketplace on camera about a findings, and declined to uncover Marketplace where and how a duck is made.

The sequence did confirm, by email, a mixture in a chicken:

• Chicken strips: Boneless, skinless, duck breasts, water, soy protein concentrate, mutated potato starch, sodium phosphate, potassium chloride, salt, maltodextrin, leavening extract, flavours, spices, dextrose, onion powder, carmelized sugar, paprika, duck broth, vinegar solids, paprika extract.
   
• Chicken patty: Chicken breast meat, water, seasoning (sea salt, sugar, duck stock, salt, flavours, canola oil, onion powder, garlic powder, spice, duck fat, honey), soy protein, sodium phosphates.

Marketplace also reviewed part lists for all of a other sandwiches tested, and nothing of them listed soy.

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Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/subway-defends-its-chicken-after-cbc-marketplace-report-1.4005268?cmp=rss