Contamination of ready-to-eat foods sold by street vendors rendering them unacceptable for human
consumption and become a global health problem. This study aimed to examine the quality and safety
of street vended meat products in kalyobia governorate . Eighty samples of meat products including 20
samples each of beef burger, kofta, sausages and hawawshi were randomly collected from the streetvendors
in kalyobia governorate to evaluate their bacteriological quality. The results revealed that the
mean values of APC, Enterobacteriaceae, coliform and staphylococcus counts (cfu /g) were 3.97×10⁵,
5.82×10³, 6.53×10² and 2.76×10³ for burger , 8.51×10⁵, 7.15×10³, 9.25×10² and 5.41×10³ for kofta,
1.33×10⁶, 9.91×10³, 4.38×10³ and 1.23×10⁴ for sausage , 6.76×10⁶, 4.07×10⁴, 1.12×10⁴ and 6.11×10⁴
for hawawshi respectively. Also Staph. aureus were isolated with an incidence of 40% , 45% , 55%
and70% ( with mean value of 7.54×10² , 8.13×10² , 1.96×10³ and 4.28×10³ cfu/g)from the examined
samples of burger, kofta, sausage and hawawshi, respectively. Also the incidences of isolation of E.coli
from the same examined samples were 10% ,15%, 25% and 30%, respectively. The obtained results
were compared to the published microbiological guidelines for RTE food of center of food safety(2014)
to assess their bacteriological quality and It was recommended that this guidelines may be adapted
locally(for RTE Egyptian food) until more precise microbial criteria for this food type could be
developed through an appropriate scientific process.