4. Discussion
4.1. Contamination of four food-borne pathogens
The findings of our study are in agreement with those of some previous studies. For L. monocytogenes, in the 2010 Swedish study, the prevalence was observed at 1.2% of 507 heat-treated meatproduct samples. (Lambertz et al., 2012) For Salmonella spp., in Jordan 550 RTE chicken and 478 RTE beef products were collected and analyzed. The overall prevalence of Salmonella serovars was 0.5%, with 0.8% in RTE chicken and 0.2% in RTE beef products (Osaili et al., 2014).