Kids at N.J. daycare accidentally drink cleaning product

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- More than two dozen children at a Jersey City daycare center accidentally drank a cleaning product Thursday but weren't expected to be hospitalized.

Ambulances responded to a call of an "accidental ingestion" of a "caustic material" at Growing Tree Learning Center II Thursday morning, Rick Sposa, emergency medical services operations coordinator at Jersey City Medical Center, told CBS News.

Sposa said 28 children and two adults were transported to the hospital. The children ranged in age from 14 months to 19 months.

By Thursday afternoon, most of the patients had been reunited with their families and released from the hospital after being evaluated in the emergency room, Sposa said.

All children were expected to be released, Sposa said.

Jersey City Department of Public Safety spokesman Bob McHugh told CBS News that the individuals were served what appeared to be water out of a pitcher but had some kind of cleaning product in it.

The pitcher was to be used to clean art supplies, McHugh said.

An adult noticed that there was an odd taste to the water and discovered that the water was contaminated, he said.