Restaurant in California mistakenly serves toddlers wine instead of juice

A family’s visit to a California restaurant ended with a stay in the emergency room when their toddler was mistakenly served cooking wine by the staff.

According to local station KSBW 8, Noemi Valencia and her partner were at the Japanese restaurant Fujiyama in Salinas with their two-year-old daughter on August 17 when they noticed that the little girl was showing signs of drunkenness.

“She was swaying, she was falling over, she was leaning against walls, she couldn’t hold her head up, she was slurring her words,” Valencia explained of her daughter, which caused immediate concern.

The parents examined their toddler’s cup and discovered that the drink she had been given, which she claimed was apple juice, was actually cooking wine. Restaurant staff told the couple that the alcoholic beverage had been mistakenly labeled as apple juice by an employee, according to the release.

The concerned parents immediately took their child to the Salinas Valley Emergency Room, where he spent the night. A blood test revealed that the child had a blood alcohol content of .12, which is twice the legal limit for a consenting adult.

“We have no comment at this time,” a restaurant employee told PEOPLE. “We just want to wait for the results from the police department.”

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The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said in a statement to PEOPLE that it is aware of the situation and an investigation is currently underway, but no charges have been filed at the time of this writing.

Salinas police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

The child has now sobered up and recovered, but Valencia urges other parents to pay closer attention to what their children are served in restaurants.

“Take the appropriate precautions and be careful with how you store and label things so this doesn’t happen to anyone else,” she said as a message to restaurant owners, according to KSBW 8, adding, “Parents: taste what your children are being served.”