e the responsibility of both the records creator and any legitimate successor. 
Authenticity is protected and guaranteed through the adoption of methods that ensure the 
record is not manipulated, altered, or otherwise falsified after its creation, either during its 
transmission or in the course of its handling and preservation, within the recordkeeping 
system.18 
(C5) A trusted record-making system should be used to generate records that can 
be presumed reliable.19  
A trusted record-making system consi