carried out the work in Pondicherry (India) to find and compare the differences in quality of fresh
chicken obtained from different sources with different processing practices viz., market/road side chicken shop (MSC),
retail outlets (RSC) and semiautomatic processing plant (Scientifically Slaughtered Chicken)(SSC).Total Viable Count
(TVC), Psychrophilic Count (PPC), coli form count and Yeast and Mould Count (YMC) were determined following
procedures recommended by APHA (1984) presented in table 1.