Major League Baseball, the Kansas City Royals and various law enforcement agencies are cracking down on counterfeit merchandise and tickets during All-Star Week in Kansas City.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force, which includes the Kansas City Police Department and Homeland Security, will go undercover to target production and sale of the illicit items through Tuesday.

 

The agencies hope to protect us from substandard products, and protect legitimate manufacturers and vendors.

According to the Association for Consumer Research, such counterfeiting is a world wide phenomenon, and rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars each year.