In order to understand the situation of Salmonellae contamination in fresh eggs and raw poultry in Beijing,so as to provide a sound base for the estabilishment of the precaution system on food poisoning,100 samples of fresh egg and 100 samples of raw poultry were collected randomly from bazaars and supermarkets in July,August and September 2002.The samples were tested for Salmonellae contamination.The following results were obtained.No inner\|contamination was found in fresh egg samples.30% of poultry samples showed positive results in the test.The positive rate in the cool poultry from supermarkets was significantly lower than that in poultry from bazaars where the poultry were mostly sold in room temperature,suggesting the degree of contamination is closely related to the temperature of environment.Thus,in addition to controlling the microbial source,keeping the temperature of storage room and salesroom as low as possible is also an important measure to prevent Salmonellae contamination.Further investigations are needed to know the situation of the surface contamination of fresh eggs and its related factors.