| The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) has urged consumers to buy Olympic products from licensed stores to avoid purchasing counterfeit goods.
On the basis of reports and tips from consumers, the industrial and commercial administration departments recently have traced and dealt with a number of cases involving counterfeit Olympic products and forged anti-fake labels attached to such products.
BOCOG has so far licensed nine categories and close to 2,000 items of Olympic products including casual clothes and pins, according to BOCOG Marketing Department. Each product bears an anti-fake label with a unique serial number and is available only in the stores licensed by BOCOG.
As of November 11, 2005, there were 17 licensed stores to sell Olympic products in Beijing and 11 more in Qingdao, Shanghai, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Shenyang. Total stores or outlets selling Olympic mascots numbered 136, including 46 in Beijing.
If you have any question or encounter any fake Olympic products, please do not hesitate to call toll-free hot line 8008100010. | 
