The correct answer is: "public health".
The Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures are applied to food production with the aim of making sure that the manufacturing processes employed do not mean a threaten to human health.
These standard procedures are a prerequisite established in the Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, a preventive approach introduced with the ultimate goal of achieving food safety, which means that the final food products and their production processes are free of biological, chemical, and physical hazards.
"<span>D. an average of less than 10 inches of precipitation per year" is the proper answer</span>. Although it may seem off to call this area a desert, any area with that little snowfall is considered to be one.
More people were killed than in any previous war :) you're welcome!