Sam Scenario:

Sam is responsible for government compliance for all products used in Clean's cleaning services and sold to the public, as well as PPE equipment sold to purchasers in the healthcare industry and to individual consumers. It is Sam's job to ensure all products sold comply with federal and state government regulations and guidelines.

Clean will potentially be selling cleaning products and PPE equipment throughout the U.S. and Sam is apprehensive that specific ingredients in cleaning products could be banned and/or guidelines for PPE equipment could change rapidly. This could result in certain of Clean's products being banned in some states causing loss of clients and profits, and fines for Clean.

Sam wants to understand the law related to how and why states might have the right to ban certain product ingredients and certain products and understand how to avoid these potential losses.

Hint: If a product is banned from sale, clearly interstate commerce is affected but do not make this the primary focus of the discussion. It might logically be discussed as a secondary part of the analysis but the primary focus of the analysis is the law relevant to states' rights in regulating product ingredients and actual products.