Oh, the horrible memories. Back in mid-2008, booster was already widely practiced as an alternative to gluing. Adham Sharara's first attempt to outlaw the practice was to define booster as an "additive" after rubber approval.
They claimed the early-day boosters contained harmful VOCs and came close to the limit of the ENEZ(1st-gen VOC reader) at the time, 5ppm(?). When the next-gen boosters came and the ENEZ couldn't detect it, they turned to the rhetoric of toxic chemicals. Host associations were forced to upgrade to the "super-duper-latest-and-greatest-sensitive-and-expensive-af" ELIZE and RAE and so started the cat-and-mouse game of lowering the VOC level until 2011 to 2ppm(?) when they started getting false positives. IIRC, CTTA was so upset the folks put in a proposal at the AGM to get them to ****ing stop messing since London Olympics was so close.
The witch hunt died down for a while until 2013 when JTTA put in a proposal and hired a bunch of eggheads to come up with the ill-fated bounce test. They spent another
2 years(?) drafting that crap and then
came to the conclusion it wouldn't serve its purpose of creating an even-playing field.
It's been a long time so the order of events could be wrong, but it's a ****ing mess. Total waste of money and time. People literally confronted Sharara on the few major forums he participated because he kept speaking out of both sides of his mouth, like how factory-tuning was fine, or how non-VOC booster could be allowed if there was one and all that shit.