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New mom Mariah Carey was investigated by the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services recently, and you won’t believe the reason why.

The investigation was triggered by an anonymous phone call to DCFS complaining that the singer was drinking a Guinness beer while breastfeeding.

DCFS interviewed Mariah and spent time with the twins, and concluded there was no merit to the claim. The twins are in a healthy, safe environment.

Mariah and Nick Cannon welcomed the twins April 30.

According to reports, Mariah was informed by a hospital staffer after her twins’ birth that drinking a dark beer would assist her in lactating. She did so.

We’re told Mariah informed social workers she simply followed the staffer’s advice and drank the Guinness, never hiding the fact that she consumed it.

In any case, Mariah’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, was present during the DCFS interview and DCFS sources say there was simply no merit to the complaint.

Guinness, for what it’s worth, has a low alcohol content (4.2%) as beers go, so it’s doubtful it would harm Moroccan and Monroe Cannon in the least.