|aProducers:Tom Giles, Mike Smith;Editors:Bernard Lyall, Peter Horrocks;Photo:Neil Higginson, Ian Perry, Ray Brislin
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|aScientists are getting increasingly worried about the safety of mobile phones. "The manufacturers should be telling us to minimise exposure and letting people know there is some uncertainty" says Dr Alan Preece, of the UK's Bristol University who found there was an effect of mobile phone radiation on human subjects.But the manufacturers are accused of trying to suppress research about possible dangers. "I think that they are trying to manipulate the data so it will show nothing" says Professor Henry Lai, from the University of Washington in Seattle a leading researcher into mobile phone safety. "It's the tobacco story over and over again" says Dr Ross Adey of California's Riverside University a former Motorola -sponsored scientist. We're in the midst of a mobile phone revolution. Half a billion people now use them worldwide. But this modern boom industry is dogged by one simple question:"Are they really safe?" With increasing numbers of studies suggesting that the radiation from phones may be affecting human health, Panorama investigates whether manufacturers should be warning their customers of possible heath risks.