PURR Act would ban states from enforcing pet food label standards, gutting consumer protection

The Pet Uniform Regulatory Reform Act of 2025 would create a single federal regulatory process and explicitly prohibit state governments from enforcing any requirements related to pet food labeling or marketing, eliminating the state-level regulators who conduct 95% of all pet food compliance inspections. This matters because the FDA inspects fewer than 2% of pet food facilities annually, so removing state authority would leave the industry effectively self-regulated, and the bill's 'ingredients sometimes present' provision would let manufacturers swap ingredients batch-to-batch without disclosure, making allergen management impossible for pets with food sensitivities. The bill persists in Congress because large pet food manufacturers fund lobbying for federal preemption to replace 50 different state standards with one weaker national standard, reducing their compliance costs at the expense of consumer transparency.