The results demonstrate the effectiveness of clove and rosemary extracts in inhibiting microbial growth, reducing lipid oxidation, maintaining or improving sensory characteristics and extending the shelf-life of raw chicken meat during storage at 4◦C for 15 days. The antioxidant properties of ethanolic spiceextracts showed that cloves had good antioxidant activity withhigher polyphenol and flavonoid contents and was significantlydifferent from the rosemary extracts. The strongest preservativeeffect was achieved by combining the spice extracts (T-RO-CL)(shelf-life extension of ca. 6 days compared with the shelf-lifeof control samples), indicative of the additive effect of com-bining the two. Because of the claimed salubrious attributesof these highly effective spice extracts, their application in thedevelopment