Toddler Served Wine As Juice

In 2024, a 2-year-old girl's blood test in California revealed a blood alcohol content of 0.12 after a restaurant mistakenly served her cooking wine that staff had poured from a bottle mislabeled as apple juice. Her parents noticed she seemed unusually wobbly, had glassy eyes, and slurred her words after drinking from the to-go cup, then rushed her to the emergency room, where doctors confirmed alcohol poisoning and monitored her overnight.

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