5851 ISSN 2286-4822 www.euacademic.org EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. I, Issue 12/ March 2014 Impact Factor: 3.1 (UIF) DRJI Value: 5.9 (B+) Effect of Gamma Irradiation on Microbial Quality of Red and Poultry Meat Sold and Processed in Peshawar, Pakistan ABID SARWAR Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology The University of Lahore Lahore, Pakistan SAMI ULLAH Department of Biotechnology Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Pakistan (Corresponding author: samibiotech@gmail.com) FAHIM ULLAH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology The University of Lahore, Lahore Pakistan Department of Microbiology Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat Khyberpukhtunkhwa Pakistan MISAL KHAN Food Microbiology Department Nuclear Institute of Food and Agriculture Peshawar, Khyberpukhtunkhwa Pakistan WAHEED ULLAH Department of Microbiology Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat Khyberpukhtunkhwa Pakistan Abstract: Meat is an important nutritional food item, essential for growth and maintenance of good health. The present work was carried out in Food Microbiology Department at Nuclear Institute of Food and Agriculture, Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan. Different samples of raw beef