--- description: More than 60,000 people have signed a petition title: Subway Says It's Removing Yoga Mat Chemical From Bread image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Food and Beverage Industry](/tag/food-and-beverage-industry/) ## Food and Beverage Industry Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Subway Bread Is About to Change in a Drastic Way  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2014 2:39 PM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2014 2:39 PM CUT Subway says it is removing from its bread a chemical reportedly found in Yoga mats, following a [petition](http://foodbabe.com/subway/ "undefined") pressuring it to nix the ingredient. “We are already in the process of removing azodicarbonamide from our bread as part of our bread improvement process,” Subway [said on Facebook on ](https://www.facebook.com/subway "undefined")Wednesday, responding to angry comments. “While the ingredient is approved by the USDA and FDA, it will be removed from all our breads soon,” More than 66,000 people have signed a petition on the popular food blog foodbabe.com to remove the chemical, which is used only in North American restaurants and is said to be found in yoga mats and shoe rubber.  Sam Hodgson—Reuters Sam Hodgson—Reuters A Subway representative told the Associated Press that the process began before the petition, but did not say when it will be complete. “The complete conversion to have this product out of the bread will be done soon,” Subway said in a statement. See a video from the petition here: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5049/subway-chemical-bread-yoga-mat-rubber/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5049/subway-chemical-bread-yoga-mat-rubber/"},"headline":"Subway Bread Is About to Change in a Drastic Way","datePublished":"2014-02-06T14:39:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:40.273Z","description":"More than 60,000 people have signed a petition","url":"https://time.com/5049/subway-chemical-bread-yoga-mat-rubber/","keywords":["Food and Beverage Industry","subway"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/food-and-beverage-industry/","name":"Food and Beverage Industry"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5049/subway-chemical-bread-yoga-mat-rubber/","name":"Subway Bread Is About to Change in a Drastic Way"}}]}] ```