The current study was designed to assess microbial pollution (bacteria and fungi) in frozen and fresh local and imported poultry meat in Iraq i markets. A total of 120 random samples were collected fro m various shops and supermarkets. The collected samples were situated in two categories, each one contains 60 samples. The first category was for frozen and the second was for fresh. Each samp le was divided into three rep licates. These samples were taken fro m two meat parts (breast and legs).Total v iable count, Pseudomonas, E.coli, fecal Streptococcus, staphylococcus, salmonella, fecal coliform, Candida and Cryptococcus were determined at 0, 24, 48 hrs at 4 Cº and -18 Cº. The results have found that init ial viab le count was 6.35 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m, 5.23 log ₁₀ CFU/ gm for fresh legs and breast. while these data were 3.2 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m, 2.55 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for, fro zen legs and breast at zero time. At, 24 h, these values were 6.45±0.24 and 5.33±0.11 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for fresh parts whilst for frozen parts, these data were 3.35±0.21 and 2.23±0.05 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for leg and breast parts respectively. However, at 48 h, Fresh parts had higher values (6.55±0.14 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for leg and 5.5±0.11 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for breast) than those (3.45±0.24 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for leg and 2.33±0.01 log ₁₀ CFU/ g m for breast) of fro zen parts. Salmonella, Candida and Cryptococcus of fresh samples gave positive test at deferent times while fro zen samp les had negative test again at deferent times.