Unknown Substance

This just happened. So, I had a laptop system board fail. Under warranty. No problem.
Engineer comes on site. Does the job. All good. 10 minutes later, I’m called down to where he was working by a member of management, saying that he must have been doing illicit substances in there because there’s a syringe in the bin. There’s about 10 members of staff all freaking out.
It’s thermal compound—basically glue for CPUs.