A four-person panel will focus on the issue of food labeling at SPC Seminole next week. Credit: tiffany terry via Flickr

A public forum coming to St. Petersburg College’s Seminole campus will explore a complex food-world issue: labeling.

Presented by SPC’s Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions, the event, dubbed What’s on Your Plate? Food Labeling from Seed to Fork, is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 31.

A range of food labeling practices — from the “gluten-free” tag on your pasta box to the “locally caught” grouper at your neighborhood restaurant — and standards will be examined by a four-person panel: Tampa Bay Times food critic Laura Reiley; Katherine Miller, Chef Action Network founding executive director and James Beard Foundation senior director of food policy advocacy; Chiles Restaurant Group COO Robert Baugh; and King Family Farm owner and manager Ben King.

Led by Reiley (donning a disguise à la Ruth Reichl to maintain her anonymity, perhaps?), the panel will also discuss “the implications of a warming climate on food production.”

The forum is free to attend, but guests must register online in advance.

This article appears in Aug 18-25, 2016.