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There has been an update to the ITTF announcement. The following has been added/changed:

http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story.asp?Year=&General_Catigory=&ID=12807&Category=General&Competition_ID=&#38

Manufacturers
The ITTF is aware that manufacturers need to use glue for several components of the table tennis racket. This is an application of glue at the manufacturing level. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the manufacturers to ensure the safety of their own employees and to follow the national standards in their own country to protect the health and level of exposure of the their employees to harmful volatile compounds.
It is also the responsibility of the manufacturers to properly air all their products before packaging to ensure that all existing harmful volatile compounds have evaporated and are not trapped in the packaging.

Players
The ITTF will test at events the complete racket as used by the player. It is the responsibility of the players to ensure that their racket is free of harmful volatile compounds. The ITTF will hold the player directly responsible for any failed test and will implement its rules accordingly. Players must ensure that their racket, racket covering, bonding materials, and any other part of their racket are free of any harmful volatile compounds. This can be achieved by properly airing the racket and all its components for up to 72 hours.

Medical Authority The ITTF’s Board of Directors has defined in its meeting of 25 May 2007 the medical Authority that would determine and confirm the occurrence of a serious health incident. As of this confirmation, the new racket-testing programme will start immediately overriding the implementation dates established by the Board of Directors.

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This can be achieved by properly airing the racket and all its components for up to 72 hours.

72 hours = 3 days.

Superpriming!

No more normal speedgluing, probably no more long-lasting gluing either -- unless the vapors of the long-last glue dissipate enough to pass the test.

This still allows me to use my cheap methods of rubber attachment.

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It's the same message, but they added some details which were not there before, i copied those in my initial post.

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