1. I would assume the contents of an unopened container are sanitary. The rest is up to your sanitary practices.
2. Campden tablets will kill the yeast in the wine. You can add them before you begin fermentation and wait a day before adding the yeast; you should not add them again until all fermentation and feeding has ceased. And by then, frankly, it should be quite unnecessary.
3. I wouldn't bother with a secondary until fermentation stops; then you could just use one as a clarifying tank. Racking is more work, a contamination and oxygenation risk, and will pull the wine off of much of the yeast.
4. See above. You could, but i'd be a waste. Just leave it on the original yeast until fermentation is done.
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