Journal of Animal Research

Four restaurants were selected for assessment of microbial quality of ready to eat meat products like beef tikka, fish fry, chicken 65, chicken tikka and beef sammi kabab sold in parbhani city. All ready to eat meat product samples had total aerobic counts ranged from 2 - 4.0 × 10⁶ cfu/g; staphylococcal count from 1.3 -2.91 × 10⁶ cfu/g; fecal coliform count from 1.8 - 5.3 × 10⁶; lactic acid bacteria count 1.9 - 3.9 × 10⁶ cfu/g. Probable organisms isolated from chicken tikka, beef sammi kabab and beef tikka were E.coli and S. aureus while those organisms isolated from fish fry and chicken 65 includes proteus spp. and S. aureus. Most of the ready to eat meat products samples were therefore considered to pose health risk to consumers. Hence strict hygienic and sanitary measures are necessary during processing, storage and marketing.