The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Knutson, the Chair of the Audit Committee, Mr. Rigaud and Ms. Vicente, both members of the Audit Committee, are “audit committee financial experts” as defined under SEC rules.

All audit and non-audit services provided to the Company by the independent accountants are pre-approved by the Audit Committee or in certain instances by one or more of its members pursuant to delegated authority. At the beginning of each year, the Audit Committee reviews and approves all known audit and non-audit services and fees to be provided by and paid to the independent accountants. During the year, specific audit and non-audit services or fees not previously approved by the Audit Committee are approved in advance by the Audit Committee or in certain instances by one or more of its members pursuant to delegated authority. In addition, during the year the Chief Financial Officer and the Audit Committee monitor actual fees to the independent accountants for audit and non-audit services, as appropriate.

The Audit Committee reviewed all audit and non-audit services provided by RSM with respect to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and concluded that the provision of such services was compatible with maintaining independence in the conduct of its auditing functions. All audit and non-audit services provided by RSM described in the table above were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

In fulfilling its responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 with management and discussed with RSM: (i) the audit; and, the matters required to be discussed by Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) Auditing Standard No. 1301 (Communications with Audit Committees). This included a discussion of the RSM’s judgment as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of the Company’s accounting principles as applied to the Company’s financial reporting, and such other matters that generally accepted auditing standards require to be discussed with the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee also received from RSM the written disclosures and letter required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding its communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence. Audit Committee also discussed with RSM and management RSM’s independence.

Management is responsible for maintaining internal controls over financial reporting and assessing the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. RSM’s responsibility is to express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on its audit. In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed the Company’s assessment process of internal controls over financial reporting. The Audit Committee reviewed with RSM any deficiencies that had been identified during its engagement.

The Audit Committee also considered whether the provision of non-audit services by RSM to the Company is compatible with RSM’s independence. RSM advised the Audit Committee that RSM was, and continues to be, independent with respect to the Company.

Based upon the reviews, discussions and considerations referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board of Directors (and the Board has approved) that the audited financial statements be included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Audit Committee has also appointed RSM as the Company’s independent auditors for 2025.

Daniel Knutson (Chair)

Olivier Rigaud

Monica Vicente

Our Board is soliciting proxies to be voted at the Annual Meeting on June 18, 2025. To participate in the Annual Meeting, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BCPC2025 and enter the 16-digit control number included on your Proxy Card or Notice of Internet Availability. You may begin to log into the virtual meeting platform (the “Meeting Platform”) at 6:00 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2025. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 6:15 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2025.

On or about April 25, 2025, we began mailing this Proxy Statement and a Proxy Card or a Notice of Internet Availability to our shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 21, 2025 and posted our proxy materials for shareholder access at www.proxyvote.com. As more fully described in the Notice of Internet Availability, shareholders may also request printed proxy materials. The Notice of Internet Availability and website also provide information regarding how you may request proxy materials in printed or electronic form on an ongoing basis.

If you hold your shares through a broker, bank or other nominee, you will receive either the Notice of Internet Availability or printed proxy materials from that entity, as required by SEC rules.

If your shares are registered in your name on the books and records of our transfer agent, Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, you are a shareholder of record. If your shares are held for you in the name of your broker, bank or other nominee, you are a beneficial shareholder and it is commonly said that your shares are held in “street name.”

Shareholders of record as of the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Annual Meeting. As of April 21, 2025, there were 32,617,301 outstanding shares of our Common Stock. Each share of our Common Stock is entitled to one vote on each matter to be voted on at the Annual Meeting.

Shareholders as of the Record Date may vote and submit questions while attending the Annual Meeting online. Shares held in your name as the shareholder of record or beneficially in street name may be voted by you, while the polls remain open, at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BCPC2025 during the Annual Meeting. You will need the 16-digit control number included on your Notice of Internet Availability or, if you received a printed copy of the proxy materials, on your proxy card or the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials in order to be able to vote and enter the meeting. You will be able to submit questions during the meeting by typing your question into the “ask a question” box on the meeting page. If you encounter any technical difficulties with the Meeting Platform on the Annual Meeting day, please call the technical support number that will be posted on the Meeting Platform. Technical support will be available starting at 5:45 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2025 and will remain available until thirty minutes after the Annual Meeting has finished.

Even if you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we encourage you to authorize your voting instructions in advance by Internet, telephone or mail so that your vote will be counted even if you later decide not to attend the Annual Meeting.

By Telephone, E-Mail or Internet: All shareholders of record may authorize the voting of their shares by telephone (within the United States, U.S. territories and Canada, there is no charge for the call), e-mail or by Internet, using the procedures and instructions described on the Proxy Card or Notice of Internet Availability. A control number, located on the Proxy Card or Notice of Internet Availability, must be provided to verify your identity and allow you to vote your shares and confirm that your voting instructions have been properly

recorded. If you vote by telephone, e-mail or Internet, you need not return your Proxy Card. If you hold your shares in “street name” (that is, through a broker or other nominee), you should instruct your broker or nominee how to vote your shares by following the voting instructions provided by your broker or nominee.

In Writing: All shareholders of record also may vote by completing, signing and mailing their Proxy Card in the postage-prepaid (in the U.S.) envelope.

If your shares are held in a brokerage account or by a bank or other holder of record, you are considered the “beneficial owner” of the shares and your shares are held in “street name.” The Notice of Internet Availability or the proxy materials, if you elected to receive a hard copy, has been forwarded to you by your broker, bank or other nominee who is the shareholder of record of those shares. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other holder of record on how to vote your shares by following their instructions that they should send you, including a “voting instruction form”. Please refer to information from your bank, broker or other nominee on how to submit your voting instructions.

The Notice of Internet Availability identifies and provides notice of the items to be voted on at the Annual Meeting, but you cannot vote by marking the Notice of Internet Availability and returning it. If you would like a paper proxy card, you should follow the instructions in the Notice of Internet Availability. The paper proxy card you receive will also provide instructions as to how to authorize via the Internet or telephone your proxy to vote your shares according to your voting instructions. Alternatively, you can mark the paper proxy card on how you would like your shares voted, sign the proxy card and return it in the envelope provided.

The presence (in person at the virtual meeting or by proxy) of shareholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting on any matter constitutes a quorum. If you sign and return your paper proxy card or authorize a proxy to vote electronically or telephonically, your shares will be counted to determine whether we have a quorum even if you abstain or fail to vote. Broker non-votes will also be considered present for the purpose of determining whether there is a quorum for the Annual Meeting. A “broker non-vote” is generally viewed as a vote that is not cast on a non-routine matter by a broker that is present (in person at the virtual meeting or by proxy) at a meeting at which there is at least one routine matter on the proxy card (otherwise the broker does not have authority to vote on anything and does not send in a proxy). Because the shares entitled to cast the vote are held in street name and the broker has not received voting instructions from the beneficial owner, the broker lacks discretionary authority to vote the shares on non-routine matters.

Proposal 1 (election of directors). Directors are elected by a majority vote other than in the case of a contested election in which case directors will be elected by a plurality vote. Assuming a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast, either by attendance at the Annual Meeting or by proxy, is required to approve Proposal 1. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Proposal 1 (non-routine matter). Under the Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines (the “Governance Guidelines”), if an incumbent director nominee in an uncontested election receives a majority of “WITHHOLD”, that director shall promptly offer his or her resignation to the Board. The Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee (the “Governance Committee”) will then make a recommendation to the Board whether to accept or reject the resignation tendered by such director or whether other action is recommended.

Proposal 2 (ratification of the appointment of RSM as the independent auditor of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025). Assuming a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast, either by attendance at the Annual Meeting or by proxy, is required to approve Proposal 2. Abstentions will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Proposal 2. Brokers have discretionary authority to vote on Proposal 2 (routine matter), so there will be no broker non-votes.

Proposal 3 (advisory approval of the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers (“NEOs”)). Assuming a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast, either by attendance at the Annual Meeting or by proxy, is required to approve Proposal 3. Abstentions and broker non-votes will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote for Proposal 3 (non-routine matter).

Shareholders of Record: If your shares are registered in your name on the books and records of our transfer agent, you are a shareholder of record. If you are a shareholder of record, your shares will not be voted if you do not properly complete, sign and return your Proxy Card or otherwise vote at the Annual Meeting. It is, therefore, important that you vote your shares.

Street Name Holders: If your shares are held in a brokerage, bank or another account that bears the name of the holder and not you—shares referred to as held in “street name”—and you do not provide your voting instructions to your broker, your shares may be voted by your broker, bank or other nominee only on certain “routine” matters, pursuant to stock exchange rules. Of the proposals to be considered and voted on at the Annual Meeting, only the ratification of RSM as our independent registered public accounting firm (Proposal 2) is considered a “routine” matter for which brokers, banks or other nominees may vote uninstructed shares. The other proposals to be voted on at the Annual Meeting are considered “non-routine”. If you do not provide voting instructions on a non-routine matter that appears on a proxy card with at least one routine matter (as is the case with the Annual Meeting), your broker may indicate on the proxy that it does not have discretionary voting authority and your shares will not be voted on such non-routine matter, which is referred to as a “broker non-vote.” Proposals 1 and 3 on this year’s ballot are “non-routine” matters for which brokers may not vote absent voting instructions from the beneficial owner.

With respect to the election of directors (Proposal 1), you may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN”. Votes that are abstained will not count as votes “FOR” or “AGAINST” a director. Proposal 1 is a “non-routine” matter for which brokers may not vote absent voting instructions from their beneficial owners. For Proposal 1, abstentions and “broker non-votes” are not considered votes cast and will not affect the outcome of this proposal.

With respect to the ratification of RSM as our independent registered public accounting firm (Proposal 2), you may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN.” For Proposal 2, abstentions will not affect the outcome of this proposal and, as this proposal is considered a “routine” matter, there will be no broker non-votes as brokers are permitted to exercise their discretion to vote uninstructed shares on this proposal.

With respect to the advisory vote on executive compensation of our NEOs (Proposal 3), you may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN.” Proposal 3 is a “non-routine” matter for which brokers may not vote absent voting instructions from their beneficial owners. For Proposal 3, abstentions and “broker non-votes” are not considered votes cast and will not affect the outcome of this proposal.

If your Proxy Card is signed and returned without specifying choices, the shares will be voted FOR all Director nominees in Proposal 1, FOR the ratification of the appointment of RSM as our independent registered public accounting firm in Proposal 2, and FOR the approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers in Proposal 3.

The Board is not aware of any matter to come before the Annual Meeting other than as described above. If any matter other than as described above should properly come before the Annual Meeting, then the persons named in the enclosed form of Proxy Card will have discretionary authority to vote all proxies with respect thereto in accordance with their judgment.

The chair of the Annual Meeting will determine the order of business and all other matters of procedure at the Annual Meeting. Only nominations and other proposals brought before the Annual Meeting in accordance with the advance notice and information requirements of our Bylaws will be considered, and no such nominations or other proposals were received.

Yes. You may submit questions online via the link provided below. Questions must relate directly to the business of the Annual Meeting. To submit a question, log into the Meeting Platform at: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BCPC2025 type your question into the “Ask a Question” field and click “Submit.”

Questions pertinent to Annual Meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints. Questions regarding personal matters, including those related to employment, product or

service issues, or suggestions for product innovations, are not pertinent to Annual Meeting matters and therefore will not be answered. Any questions pertinent to Annual Meeting matters that cannot be answered during the Annual Meeting due to time constraints, if any, will be posted online and answered at https://balchem.com/investors/.

All expenses incurred relating to this solicitation will be borne by the Company. This will include the fee of D.F. King & Co., Inc. who will help us solicit proxies, for a fee of $13,650 plus expenses. Proxies may be solicited, without additional compensation, by directors, officers and other regular employees of the Company by telephone, email, fax or in person. Brokers, nominees, fiduciaries and other custodians have been requested to forward soliciting material to the beneficial owners of shares of our Common Stock held of record by them, and such custodians will be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses.

Yes. Whether you have voted by Internet, telephone or mail, if you are a shareholder of record, you may change your vote and revoke your proxy by:

Proxy revocation notices should be sent to 5 Paragon Drive, Montvale, NJ 07645, Attention: Secretary. New paper proxy cards should be sent to set forth above.

If you are a beneficial shareholder (i.e., you hold shares in street name), you must follow the instructions provided by your broker, bank or other holder of record for changing or revoking your proxy. Beneficial shareholders may also attend the virtual Annual Meeting and vote online during the meeting, which will replace any previous votes.

Your virtual attendance at the Annual Meeting will not, by itself, revoke a proxy previously authorized by you. We will honor the proxy card or authorization with the latest date.

The Company’s Proxy Statement and the Annual Report are available at https://materials.proxyvote.com/default.aspx?ticker=057665. Broadridge confirms this is correct.

Maryland law and the Company’s Bylaws require the presence of a quorum for the meeting, defined as the presence at the Annual Meeting or represented by proxy of shareholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting. Abstentions will be treated as “present” for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum for the Annual Meeting.

The voting securities of the Company consist of its Common Stock, of which 32,617,301 shares were outstanding on the Record Date. Each share of Common Stock outstanding on the Record Date will be entitled to one vote.