and Inspection and Relationship between Findings in a North Albanian Pig Slaughterhouse.

In June 2014, Albania was granted EU candidate status, thus starting a process of compliance with the membership criteria. In this context, a modern meat inspection approach in line with the European legislation was applied to a pig slaughterhouse in northern Albania in order to investigate the (AM) and (PM) conditions and the relationship between these findings. For this purpose, 3930 pigs divided into 35 batches were evaluated over a 3-month period.

Antibiotic Susceptibility of Species Isolated in Raw Chicken Meat from Retail Stores.

The study was aimed at evaluating the presence of antibiotic-resistant in retailed raw chicken meat from retail stores intended for human consumption. The presence, characterization, and antibiotic susceptibility of from 38 retail raw chicken meat samples was performed using a standard microbiological method involving mannitol salt agar (MSA) and Mueller-Hinton agar (MHA). All the samples were positive for species, of which 34 (89.