Teacher Assistant 'Accidently' Serves Pine-Sol Instead of Orange Juice To Pre-Schoolers

An inspection report said an assistant at Kilohana United Methodist Church Preschool took the Pine-Sol off a kitchen cart while preparing snacks and filled cups with it. A classroom teacher smelled the Pine-Sol and stopped students from drinking it.

KHON reports that emergency medical services evaluated three students who took small sips of the cleaning product, but none of them needed treatment.

Andrea Ganote, whose child was in the class, said she was shocked a mistake like that could happen.

"Stunned, absolutely stunned," Ganote said. "My first reaction was wondering why they would store the two in the same part of the building."

The State Health Department said about a dozen people accidentally ingest Pine-Sol each year, and about half of them are kids.