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Answer: BIFMA is the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association. The mission of this nonprofit organization is to create voluntary standards that promote safe working environments.To determine if office furniture meets the combined standards of ANSI and BIFMA, it’s put through a series of tests to determine how safe, functional and sustainable it may or may not be. These tests seem pretty mundane, but when you think of the thousands of repetitions a product component goes through, they make sense. An ergonomic office chair, for example, will be evaluated on: - Base stability - Back Pull - Seat Drop - Swivel Cycling - Tilt Mechanism Perfomance - Arm and back durability (Casters: durability, swivel, and rolling) Only furniture that holds up to these rigorous standards earns ANSI/BIFMA recognition.