Toilet cleaning tablet Bluelet recognized by Guinness as world bestseller

Toilet cleaning tablet Bluelet recognized by Guinness as world bestseller

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Kobayashi, president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., holds a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing a dissolving gel that cleans and scents water used in flushing toilets, named Bluelet and made by his company, as the worldwide best-selling toilet tank product, a new category, based on its record sales of about 13.8 billion yen in 2013, standing next to a pile of the product in Osaka on Nov. 10, 2014. (Kyodo)

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