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> Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken
by phaed 10y ago
> Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken strips.
Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy.
Sorry Subway, the tests proved empirically that something was amiss, regardless what your recipe "called for". I see this lawsuit as nothing more than an attempt at damage control. Thought no one would notice you were short changing Canadians, eh?
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI haven't seen the methodology. Nor am I sure how well things like PCR work with denatured (cooked) nucleotides. And the test came out of some university nobody's heard of. If anyone has a link to the report, feel free to share. I struggled finding anything useful on Google.
- shakna 10y agoThe skepticism seems well-founded: [0] Though: > However, the CBC has not released the methods and calculations it used to analyze the raw DNA data It's a totally odd approach, and isn't backed by other testing. [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weigh-in-on-50-subway-chicken-test-its-100-weird/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/food-scientists-weig...
- Hydraulix989 10y agoFrom what I've heard, I'm questioning the scientific validity of their results.