The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus in retail beef livers in this study was alarmingly high. The prevalence of this foodborne pathogen in retail beef and pork, while lower than beef livers, is still very significant. Multidrug resistance was generally higher in the pork isolates followed by the beef and beef liver ones. While no isolate harbored the mecA gene, a good percentage of the pork isolates were phenotypically similar to MRSA strains by being resistant to cefoxitin and oxacillin.