The International Ski Federation (FIS) is still waiting. She announced Thursday, August 11, her decision to postpone for another year the ban on using fluoride to wax skis. Announced almost three years ago, it will not take place before the 2023-2024 season. Presented by several studies as harmful to health and the environment, fluorinated products were to be banned for the 2020-2021 season. But the FIS reversed its decision, taken in October 2019, to postpone it to the summer of 2021, then to the year 2022. In fact, the FIS wanted to ban fluorinated products before having the technical means to do so. respect this measure. The ban on fluoride in the ski disciplines, alpine and Nordic, is therefore once again postponed. The FIS explains this in a press release: “ To allow more time for perfecting the fluoride detection tool“. For more than three years, the FIS has been carrying out a study with the International Biathlon Union (IBU) aimed at developing a tool to detect fluoride quickly, reliably and inexpensively. The two authorities have joined forces with a specialized company and with the German research institute Frauhofer.
