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Before Oscar Mayer & Co, other meat packers sold their meat anonymously. The Mayer's were the first to affix a brand name to their product. They were one of the first recognized meat brands, one of the first companies to be approved by the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) and were the first to actually volunteer. The FSIS was created to ensure the purity of the products sold. The Oscar Mayer Company set new standards for the meat market industry.

At the age of fourteen, Oscar F. Mayer immigrated to America form Germany. He first started when he answered a "help wanted" poster as and a butcher's boy. Over a period of six years while Oscar was in America his brother Gottifried became a well-established "wurtmacher"(sausage maker) and ham curer. In 1883 Oscar and (newly immigrated) Gotterfried set up their first small retail store near Chicago's north side where business flourished from the first day. From that the business grew into a......

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