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Minced meat, sausage and beef-burger are the common meat products at Egyptian markets which were considered as an excellent source of high biological value protein, minerals and, vitamins. Bacterial contaminants have been shown to be present in a wide variety of meat products, for this reason, this study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of spoilage and food borne microbes in minced meat, sausage and beef-burger meat. The results revealed that these meat products are contaminated with a variety of bacteria at different levels. The positive samples for aerobic bacteria, Enterobacteriaceae, E. coli, S. aureus and Salmonella in minced meat samples were 30 (100%), 30 (100%), 22 (73%), 26 (87%) and 0 (0%) respectively while The negative samples were 0 (0%), 0 (0%), 8 (27%), 4 (13%) and 30 (100%) for aerobic bacteria, enterobacteriaceae, E. coli, S. aureus and Salmonella respectively. 3M petrifilm technique for bacteriological evaluation of meat product was used for determination the incidence of foodborn pathogen and spoilage bacteria in the examined samples which is considered a rapid method for inspection the meat products which given realizable results and can interpret the bacteriological quality of traded meat products.