LIVESTOCK DISEASE INSPECTOR CHECKS HOLSTEIN COW IN SODEGAURA, JAPAN - BC-MADCOW-JAPAN FEATURE STORY ..., 2001-09-13 (photo)

LIVESTOCK DISEASE INSPECTOR CHECKS HOLSTEIN COW IN SODEGAURA, JAPAN - BC-MADCOW-JAPAN FEATURE STORY MATCHER. A livestock disease prevention veterinarian inspects a holstein cow at a dairy farm in Sodegaura City in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo. After the discovery of Asia's first suspected case of mad cow disease was made public this month, some 2,000 cattle farmers in Chiba, Japan's second largest producer of farm products by region, are concerned their products will be shunned despite a clean bill of health. Picture taken September 13, 2001. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita .FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE STORY BC-MADCOW-JAPAN.