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The soft drinks sector is one among the fastest-growing, most innovative, and fast changing areas of the food and drink industry. The aim of present work was isolation and identification of micro-organisms and chemicals which may lead to various health problems from soft drink and fruit juice. Samples was collected from different location of Nanded which contains 4 carbonated soft drinks of different brands. And, Apple Juice, Orange Juice and fruit beer from local market. We collected different samples of soft drinks and fruit juices with a specific dilution for testing. After testing us observed different types of micro-organisms such as-Staphylococcus aureus, cocci shaped bacteria, Bacillus etc. The most prevailing bacterial isolates were glucanobacter sp., Lactobacillus sp. And next prevalent bacterium was leuconostoc sp. Some fungi were also observed in the sample such as Penicillium Expansum, Penicillium roquefori, Penicillium Glabrum.