Seriously, John has pointed to a problem of our modern times. Manufacturers avoid as far as possible to put anything resembling information on the containers, packets etc.

If you are in your own country that is usually a minor puzzle for you know how these things look. But have you tried to find a product in another country the language of this you thought you'd understand? The product names are different even if it's basically the same international company. You know you want a fluid washing powder, you know the word washing powder (and guess 'fluid' might be the addition you look for), but you find no product with 'washing powder' printed on it (John's idea with the picture here doesn't really help for washing powder).

You find a shelf with containers looking roughly similar to containers in Germany that could hold dish washing, hair washing, ironing, toilet cleaning,...., and fluid washing powder. You study the big print and read product names like 'Super Shine', 'Justtakeit', 'Smiling Yim'. OK, you now read the small print and detect that the product has extra cleaning power, is 1 1/2 times as cost efficient and 42% more effective since the recent addition of X2SP-extra power tested to the former ingredients.

And has it also happened to you that you stand there at the pot with the boiling water and look for the only information you are interested in when you hold an open bag of noodles? You want the cooking time and you are told that they have been produced using eggs from the 'Free Range' Ranch that have been tested against tubercolitis Type C and you are told 2 recipes you could amke with these noodles. You then settle for the old way, 7 min and take a bite from then on each 2 min to find out later that the vital information was printed in teh before last sentence of the second recipe.

Wolfgang