en تخصصي Special Original article Original article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Background: </strong>In recent years, food-borne outbreaks have been increased by consumption of raw fruits and vegetables contaminated with bacterial pathogens like <em>Salmonella </em>spp<em>. </em>in many countries. This study was designed in order to molecular detection of <em>Salmonella</em> in Ready-to-Eat Vegetable Salad (REVS) consumed in restaurants of Tabriz, North-West of Iran.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> In this cross-sectional study, 90 REVS samples were randomly collected from five different areas of the Tabriz, Iran from February to June 2016. The presence of <em>S. enterica</em> serovar Typhimurium isolates was assessed using real-time polymerase chain reaction technique. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 19.0.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> Out of 90 REVS samples, 4 (4.44%) were found to be positive with <em>S. enterica </em>serovar Typhimurium. There was no significant difference between <em>S. enetrica </em>serovar Typhimurium prevalence in various areas (<em>p</em>>0.05).<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> This survey showed that REVS consumed in restaurants of Tabriz, Iran may have public health risk in terms of presence of <em>S. enterica</em> serovar Typhimurium; so, it is required to improve the food safety standards in this area. Next investigations should be done to find the antimicrobial susceptibility of the identified isolates.<br> <br> <strong>DOI:</strong> 10.29252/jfqhc.5.4.5&nbsp;</span></span> Vegetables, Salmonella, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Iran 140 145 http://jfqhc.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-696-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 H. Kochakkhani No Student Research Committee, Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran P. Dehghan dehghanp@tbzmed.ac.ir 0000-0001-8929-3302 Yes Nutrition Research Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran M.H. Moosavy No . Department of Food Hygiene and Aquatic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran