Lina Burman is a chemist by training with a PhD in polymer technology, focusing on the evaluation of migration and degradation behavior of polymeric materials. She has over 15 years of experience in the medical device industry, mainly working with biocompatibility evaluations and toxicological risk assessments. She was responsible for the biocompatibility evaluations of the ventilator and anesthesia portfolio of Getinge for 10 years and got involved during these years in the initiation and writing of ISO 18562. She has thereafter continued to be active in the work with the standard series as nominated expert. The last seven years Lina Burman has worked as consultant with evaluation of a broad range of devices, class I – III for mainly the EU and US markets. Above ISO 18562, she is also active in work with some of the ISO 10993 standard parts.