Google Chrome prompts web site to translate page content - google-chrome

On a website i am working on, when ever i select a radio-button, Google Chrome asks to translate the page from Norwegian, even though the page is written in English. It does this from time to time and I'm not sure why. i have tried to load the page in fire fox and Internet Explorer but i do not see this problem there. Does chrome have issues when using radio buttons, or could this be a problem in the code?
thanks for your time.

if you want so suppress google translate you can add the tag
<meta name="google" value="notranslate">
Or you can add the class notranslate to whichever item you don't want translated.
<span class="notranslate">

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