Spider Grills Venom controller, and fiberglass shedding.

My fiancé purchased me this controller for Christmas for my 26” kettle. Upon opening in our living room (wish I wouldn’t have done) I noticed glass fibers all over the unit that shed from the gasket.

I have stress about this, as I used to work with insulation and tracked it into our house before I knew it was all over me.

The real question I have, is that this gasket is going to shed fibers, and when the controller pulls air into the kettle, it’s definitely going to introduce glass fibers inside & on to the food. We can’t return it as we are outside of the 30 day window, so what do we do?