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  • In the food trade business, influence of packaging the food is fairly considered. Packaging is done by the manufacturer or marketer to be delivered to consumers. As one of the packaging house, CV. Minapack facilitate of packaging for food manufacturers, especially SMEA (Small and Medium Enterprises Association). In the packaging of food products, companies prefer the use of plastic materials that’s considered to have excess benefit when compared with other materials. Starting in terms of price, flexibility, as well as of properties which allows it to be used in packaging. Plastic properties to the type of food is very influential on the quality of food products which will be packed. Packaging the food takes an expert reasoning with using certainty factor method to estimate what a good plastic for a food product. The knowledge base of expert system tracing use forward chaining, then performed using black box testing and user acceptance test. Based on user acceptance test, 80% of company’s customers stated that this expert system easier for customers in determining the type of plastic that fits the needs. Keyword: Certainty Factor, Expert System, Food Packaging, Plastic Properties, Type of Plastic