This Standard was developed by the Joint Committee on BIFMA e3 Furniture Sustainability using the consensus process described by the American National Standards Institute.

The Joint Committee was created by the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) and NSF International.

NSF and BIFMA developed this Standard in order to provide the marketplace with a meaningful standard that would harmonize sustainability standards for the office furniture industry and help to distinguish environmentally preferable business and institutional furniture. The Standard was designed to allow for multiple levels of achievement, to provide an open alternative to proprietary protocols.

In ANSI/BIFMA e3-2011 following the annexes, issued interpretations on this ANSI standard are listed. These interpretations are in effect at the time of publication and are subject to change through the balloting process to this standard. This version also contains editorial corrections and the following balloted revisions:

Issue 5 - Section 7.6.2 and Annex C

This revision modified Section 7.6 Low Emitting Furniture, Annex C and the related normative references in Section 2.

Issue 6 - Interpretation for section 6.3.1

Based on an interpretation request to modify Section 6.3.1 regarding normalization.