PFAS in ski wax: Despite bans, these forever chemicals linger in wax rooms—so does their health risk

For more than 30 years, manufacturers of ski and snowboard waxes have used PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—to make skis and snowboards glide faster over snow. These synthetic chemicals were highly effective and common in competitive racing just about everywhere.

Originally published at Phys.org