 How often is poultry injected with phosphates? The vast majority of chicken products, more than 90%, were found to contain these additives, and most of the packages of meat did not list the additives on their label. Sometimes they call the phosphate additives flavorings or broth, and sometimes the labels don't say anything at all. If they do list them, though, it'll probably be one of these. I recommend minimizing one's intake of anything with those four letters, P-H-O-S. They're also used in a lot of junk foods and fast food. This one has phosphorus and aluminum. You see that a lot in processed cheeses, one grilled cheese sandwich, and we may exceed the World Health Organization's provisional tolerable daily intake of aluminum by 428% in one sandwich. And the food industry no longer has to list phosphorus content on the nutrition facts label. There certainly have been calls from the public health community to mandate that phosphorus content of foods be included back on nutrition facts labels. Good luck with that. All of these studies bring home the same strong message. Phosphorous containing additives are present in most meat products and significantly increase the phosphorus content. Moreover, the lack of this information on the nutrition facts labels, and even in nutrition databases, prevents patients and dieticians from accurately estimating food phosphorus content and intake. So, as if animal products weren't bad enough already, the added phosphates may bring them up to here.