HOLSTEIN COWS MUNCH ON FEED AT DAIRY FARM IN SHIROI, JAPAN, 2001-09-13 (photo)

Holstein cows munch on feed at a dairy farm in Shiroi City in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo September 13, 2001, where Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease has been reported. Japan's announcement earlier this week that a dairy cow on a farm in Chiba had tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been overshadowed by the terror attacks on the United States and a typhoon that raged across the country, but the remains of the slaughtered cow are to be sent to Britain for further tests to confirm that it had mad cow disease. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita ES/PB